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Re: [lojban] smart.fm flashcards - obvious wrongness
On Apr 10, 2010, at 20:27, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
(this should really be on the beginner's list)
I didn't send it there because I figured it was a technical
('designing the smart.fm lojban material') argument that would be
noise there.
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 07:55:23PM -0400, Kevin Reid wrote:
I find that whenever I'm quizzed about a gismu place, the answer
is always obvious because the current session is dealing with only
a few gismu, and out of all the possible answers there is only one
item which (if Lojban->English) is plausibly for that gismu or (if
English->Lojban) is one of the gismu sumti being used in this
test.
[...]
There is no technical solution to this in the smart.fm setup that
I'm aware of.
Well, I don't know what smart.fm's model is, but it at least manages
to present only the appropriate *type* of phrases (e.g. if the
question is "something x" then the answers are all "lo [SE] BRIVLA"
and not "BRIVLA" or in English); I assume, however, that it might be
impractical to extend this to per-gismu associations, or that it would
eliminate ever seeing a wrong answer with the wrong gismu.
My personal solution is to not click "quiz me" or
"next" until I'm sure I know which it is. I haven't gone so far as
to deliberately click a wrong answer if I get it wrong in my head,
but I'm considering it.
Having to stop and think about my own performance was one of the most
tiresome aspects of using SuperMemo on the Palm, for me. smart.fm as
it is seems to be much more conducive to getting into flow. [But is
that good for learning?] I don't have to remember *not* to click ahead
(except that I wish the study screens, which are display-this, pause,
display-that, *looked more different* from the other screens because I
often click through them without recognizing them since I'm in the
mode of 'glance at question, click next, pick answer'. On the other
hand, perhaps it's just that it hasn't caught up with my actual skill
level yet and once I have more not-immediately-recognized items the
steps will be more natural.)
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Kevin Reid <http://switchb.org/kpreid/>
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