{"id":3814,"date":"2016-10-18T17:34:21","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T00:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teachinginhighered.com\/?p=3814"},"modified":"2016-10-18T17:34:21","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T00:34:21","slug":"engaging-students-using-quizlet-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teachinginhighered.com\/2016\/10\/18\/engaging-students-using-quizlet-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Engaging Students Using Quizlet Live"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Quizlet<\/p>\n

I\u2019m experimenting with flashcards in my teaching this semester. For as long as I\u2019ve been teaching, I\u2019ve strongly recommended flashcards to my students. However, I knew most students didn\u2019t follow through on the advice.<\/p>\n

Over the summer, I decided to have my teaching assistant make flash cards for my entire introduction to business course. I recognized that some of the benefits from flashcards are derived by actually making them, yourself. However, I suspected that a larger percentage of students would receive at least some advantages that this form of retrieval practice<\/a> offers, even if they didn\u2019t make them from scratch.<\/p>\n

After doing a little bit of research on possible tools, I decided to select Quizlet<\/a> as the app for this function.<\/p>\n

Results<\/h2>\n

In my recent mid-semester review, many students commented that the flashcards were contributing to their learning. However, I was concerned that the focus was still on memorization and not enough on application.<\/p>\n

This wasn\u2019t the fault of Quizlet<\/a>, of course, but more so that having baseline knowledge of terms and their associated definitions will only take us so far.<\/p>\n

I also was concerned that they were only likely accessing the flash cards, at best, once a week. That level of frequency wasn\u2019t going to prove anywhere near as useful as if they could increase the times they accessed them.<\/p>\n

Some students have downloaded the Quizlet app <\/a>on their phones and have reported being more likely to review them a few times each week. I have the flashcards embedded from within our LMS, which ensures that they\u2019ll likely go through them at least that one time, but doesn\u2019t provide any more accountability than that.<\/p>\n

Something New<\/h2>\n

Overall, my thoughts this semester about Quizlet<\/a> have been positive, though I already have some ideas about how I might want to tweak things next time around.<\/p>\n

However, this week I tried a new feature of Quizlet<\/a>, in class, and was instantly in awe.<\/p>\n

Quizlet Live<\/h3>\n

The name of this feature is Quizlet Live<\/a>. It is a game that you can play with a minimum of six students (two teams of three), all of whom have a mobile device.<\/p>\n