How Can Teachers Use It?
Teachers might use Quizlet to share flashcard sets with their students, or ask students to generate their own flashcard sets for individual or small-group review prior to assessments. Teachers might also encourage students to use Quizlet for rapid-review sponge sessions that reclaim idle time: Students can review for a history exam or a Spanish quiz when they've finished their seatwork or while standing in line. Keep in mind that the multi-language audio features are a serious standout: These flashcards are a great tool for foreign language classrooms and for ELLs.
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What's It Like?
Quizlet is one of the most widely used digital flashcard creators in education. Users can create and upload custom sets of flashcards and then review those flashcards on demand. They can save their flashcards for private use or publicly upload them to the Quizlet website, where users can search among millions of flashcard sets by title or subject. Flashcard sets in Quizlet can be reviewed in five ways: Users can flip through their sets in the Cards view, play a game in the Match view, type in the “back” of a card through the Write view, quiz themselves with the Test view, and indicate their confidence with each card in the updated, more adaptive Learn view.
The Quizlet app lacks several of the website’s best features for uploading content. It’s tougher to create flashcards through the app than it is on the website, making it tempting to simply review someone else’s cards rather than generate your own.
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Is It Good For Learning?
Studying with Quizlet means working with digital flashcards, and Quizlet flashcard sets have the same benefits and drawbacks as their paper counterparts. It’s useful to have a fast way to create, search for, and review digital flashcards, and it’s convenient to have flashcards available at the tap of a screen. The view that offers the best chance for engagement and deep learning -- the aptly named Learn view -- has been extensively updated for mobile, which is a big help, and it's nice to be able to search for flashcard sets and to tap many cards to hear the text read aloud. However, while the app offers easy access to that content, it might not inspire deep learning or serious engagement. Unless you're searching for your own flashcard deck or for cards made by someone you know, it's hard to find consistently good content. And, once you find a good flashcard set, there’s little to stop a user from clicking mindlessly through a set of flashcards.
Ultimately, Quizlet is good for rapid-fire review or rote memorization; if that’s an element of how a student wants or needs to study, this app could be a useful tool. In some ways, Quizlet offers a valuable digital learning community, with existing flashcards on a range of topics, from driver’s ed to calculus. The same rule applies here as with paper flashcards, however: There’s a learning opportunity in making the flashcards as much as in using them, and it’s possible that users could rely entirely on others’ flashcard sets rather than creating new ones.
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Quizlet is a flashcard app for mobile devices.
Users can select five different view options to browse and study their cards.
Tap the screen to flip the card and reveal its answer; tap the audio icon to hear the words read aloud.
After completing sessions with a flashcard set, you can review your progress.
You can use Quizlet as your go-to study tool to review for upcoming quizzes and tests.
