5 Benefits Of Using Flash Cards In Education

Flash cards can be an excellent study resource provided you know how to use them to your advantage.

Below, we have highlighted a few exceptional benefits of using flash cards in education. Have a look. 

1. Flash cards are cost-effective

As far as study materials are concerned, flash cards are definitely one of the most cost-effective solutions of all.

You are not required to buy a fancy set of cards to make a flash card. Plain and simple index cards (that are around 3-by-5 inches in size) are more than capable of doing the job on its own. Here are a few examples for you:

Index cards come in dimes a dozen. So cost efficiency you wanted; cost efficiency you’ll get. Is there anything more you want?

2. They are portable

Flash cards are portable learning materials that can be carried anywhere, anytime with sheer ease and comfort.

They are also less bulky in comparison to that of textbooks and can be accessed anywhere, anytime as per your wish.

So how many do you wish to bring with you on your ride to the school? Ten? Twenty? Thirty? No problem! Your edc carry would suffice.

So feel free to bring them in bulks. You would not even feel the weight.

3. They do work

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Flash cards can really give your learning a whole new dimension by speeding things up for your own good.

The portability of flash cards can also help to improve your entire learning efficiency on the whole. By taking cards everywhere, students will be able to make productive use of their time and learn something new every day.

4. They are versatile

There’s no compulsion for you to use flash cards for a particular subject only.

They can be used to learn virtually ANY subject in general, be it history, geography, biology, mathematics, physics, chemistry, foreign languages, English vocabulary…you name it; they’ve got it.

Note: The best general usage of flash cards (irrespective of the subject) lies in:

• Memorizing important historical dates.
• Memorizing key facts and figures no matter what the subject is.
• Memorizing English language (or any other language) vocabulary.
• Learning mathematical and physics formulae.
• Memorizing chemical formulae.

Do remember that your imagination is your only limitation (as far as the creative use of flash cards is concerned). Use it wisely to get positive results in the long run.

5. Flash cards help to ease up the entire learning procedures

We’ll start this explanation with a question first.

What do you usually write on a flash card?

Do you write paragraphs after paragraphs of information? Or do you write the primary underlying principle of the subject matter; something that can be absorbed by your brain in a jiffy? If it’s the latter, you are definitely on the right path.

By forcing yourself to simplify the subject matter (to write the basic underlying principles of the subject matter on your designated flash cards), you are actually easing up the entire learning procedures (refer to the Feynman’s method of learning to understand this in greater detail). 

So there’s absolutely no doubt that flash cards do play a major role in easing up learning for the good.

Benefits of using e-flash cards over paper flash cards

Biology e-flash cards

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With the advent of technology and the mobile internet, flash cards have also improved themselves a lot in comparison to the way they used to be in the past.

Today, we have the option to use e-flash cards right at our fingertips, thanks to the advent of the mobile internet, in particular. 

Although most of the benefits remain more or less the same, as far as the comparison between e-flash cards and paper flash cards is concerned, there’s one particular benefit that’s seemingly unmatched by anything else.

E-flash cards can help you save a whole lot of paper (and simultaneously, trees) for the overall good of the environment. The same act can also contribute to the reduction of your carbon footprints.

With that, we’ll bring this post to an end. Hope you had a good and useful read.