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With the ability to bring flashcards online Quizlet offers a great substation to traditional flash card sets. Utilizing the activities and enhanced features of quizlet including the activities and game modes, Quizlet augments traditional flash card studying methodologies. Collaborating during in class discussion to make class study sets redefines the concept of flash card studying in a very technology integrative way.

Students who struggle to study for assessments and test can benefit from the features of quizlet. The easy to use platform makes it great for students who benefit from traditional flash cards but want to digitize them and access them from their mobile devices making study sessions easy to have anytime and anywhere. The different modes available allow for the student to take control of their own studying and learning allowing them to tailor their study sessions to their needs. While not designed for higher order learning, factual based learning can be achieved utilizing this tool

Quizlet is a flash card based app that is designed for high school level students. Anywhere students would create flashcards for studying perpiouses, Quizlet can be used. Quizlet offers a great opportunity for students to create study sets of vocabulary words for any content area. Having students take notes during a test review and then go home to create study flash card sets is a great way to leverage and utilize the power of this tool.

Highlighted Use Case

Students in the HIgh School AP English classes meet to create study sets of Quizlet flashcards once a week. Each week leading up to the AP test students create flash cards as a group in class. They then take these flash card sets and use them to study for that weeks vocabulary. Each week there are more cards added to the set creating a vast set of cards that students can independently review prior to taking the AP exams.

Highlighted below are some basic video tutorials to help get started with Quizlet. No action from the technology department is needed to access this tool as it is a free tool.