by Luna Dominguez and Lucas Cordero
by Luna Dominguez and Lucas Cordero
Quizlet is a study-set-creation tool for students and teachers that gives lots of freedom to create tools for studying and learning such as digital flashcards, matching games, practice electronic assessments, and live quizzes. Quizlet is good for both face-to-face lessons and remote learning since it makes building and assessing quick and easy. What´s more, It is even smart enough to offer adaptive learning to suit the student.
Benefits
You can easily differentiate review for your students: when you create study sets for your students, you decide which modes to use based on how your students learn best. With options such as Flashcards, diagrams and text-to-speech audio prompts, you’re creating a customized way for your students to review information, without you having to do a lot of extra work!
You can incorporate collaboration and teamwork into your classes: Quizlet Live is an in-class game that teachers can use to help students review information while working together in teams. The game randomly sorts students into teams to match terms and definitions, and the first team to correctly answer all of the questions wins!
Students have another way to prepare for tests: with the engaging study tools and differentiation options available, your students have so many different ways to prepare for tests. If your students have a mobile device, they can download the Quizlet app to review information anytime, anywhere and can just log in and start studying.
Drawbacks
Students can get distracted by ads: if you and your students use the free version of Quizlet, you’ll see ads on every page of the website. These ads are actually designed to distract your students away from learning. You can upgrade to the paid version of Quizlet to remove the ads, but that may not fit into your classroom budget when there are more important things to purchase.
Students could learn incorrect information: because Quizlet allows any user to create and share a study set, there is no guarantee the information is accurate. If a student logs in and chooses a set created by someone else, there’s a possibility they could accidentally study incorrect information.
Students may use Quizlet to cheat: If you create Quizlet sets for each assessment in your class, you’re providing excellent resources for your students. But dishonest students may take advantage of those study tools to cheat on their homework and assessments.
How to use Quizlet?
Here you have an useful tutorial for you to follow! The girl speaking is Rory Yakubov, who provides us with very good guidance!
References:
https://www.aeseducation.com/blog/quizlet-pros-cons