I was talking to my JTE recently about my Japanese studies, and I told her I use anki to study vocabulary. She said she’d love to give our high school students a tool like that to help them remember English vocab.
Has anyone tried teaching their classes to use anki? It might be really difficult, but I feel like it mint be possibly with a lot of hand holding during the setup. Can’t tell if it’s a great or terrible idea lol
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I’ve thought about it but never got around to making one. Do let me know how it goes if you do!
I think rather than going straight to a digital solution like Anki you could trial a paper/card version. This would be much easier to implement and can be just as fun if not more as you can get students to customise their own cards (writing font, colours, pictures etc.) which they wouldn’t be able to do (I think?) using Anki.
I started using Memrise this year and the students really love the competitive aspect of the leaderboard.
I haven’t tried teaching it, but I’ve definitely recommended it to my students before. On the English board, I posted some useful learning apps that included Anki, Duolingo, NHK Gogaku, and the Language Reactor Chrome extension. I would be curious how it goes if you decide to go ahead with it!