I'm so thrilled that has synthesized many of his observations on serious use of Anki as part of his creative work: augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html
It's become a very powerful tool in my life, but I've only taken the first few steps here. Learning how to learn! 🔰
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Thanks Andy! I’m not sure the essay would exist - or it would be very different - without your encouragement!
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fascinating and thought provoking, especially part 2 which challenges my similar beliefs about classrooms and fact-recall importance. Additionally, I wonder what the difference would be between Ankified questions made by the teacher and the students of an Algebra 1 course
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is there a minimum age or level of understanding necessary? If my students had cards that said "What is slope-intercept form?" would that help their understanding? Sure if faced with that I'd want them to think y=mx+b and then other cards support their recall of m and b...
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But I wonder if that slope intercept question card (and its dependency cards) would only be conceived because of the standard "pre-processed" nature of (standard) math curriculum: summarized and organized. And in this case it's more like your example of memorizing a book.
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Piotr Wozniak advises “don’t try to memorize what you don’t understand” and I think that probably applies to situations like you’re describing. If the student understands, then wants to remember, they might naturally make that card.