Quizlet - online flash cards


Quizlet is a website that provides a virtual classroom for teachers to interact with students by posting created flash card decks and tracking student progress. Students can join a created class via a link. From there, they will have access to any decks that teachers post to their class. More than flash cards, there are diagrams that help to connect terms to pictures and labeled diagrams. There are even match activities to help students visualize images. As a teacher of many students with disabilities, the diagrams aspect of Quizlet appears to be most useful. I have many students that would benefit from having pictures and/or other diagrams attached to terms and definitions instead of the traditional word and definition. The paid version provides a flipped classroom by allowing teachers to track students’ progress. A subscription also allows for advanced and unlimited diagram creation, as well as adding audio to live games.
I can see myself using Quizlet because of the creation of classes and customization for each class. Being that the subscription is only $35 for the year, it seems worth the cost to track students project. The greatest difficulty I have seen my students have transitioning to 8th grade is the increase in new content and vocabulary. Quizlet moves away from traditional flash cards and helps students learn vocabulary in an engaging way. At the beginning of each new unit, I give my students a vocabulary list for the whole unit. I found this more useful than to give terms and definitions each time we introduce a new term. Using Quizlet would definitely help with this as I can create a deck for the whole unit and assign that to classes at the start of the unit. This would help students to review all of the vocabulary throughout the whole unit and help students preview new terms before they are explicitly taught in class.

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