Common Sense Media Review
By Amanda Bindel
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based on child development research. How do we rate?
No-frills flashcard tool requires a lot of setup.
Parents Need to Know
Why Age 7+?
Any Positive Content?
Where to Download
Videos and Photos
Flashcards Maker Pro
Parent and Kid Reviews
What's It About?
Instead of writing on 3x5 cards, parents or older kids can create their own flashcards to review on their Android devices. Kids swipe through the cards or scroll down to see the answers, and they can tap to hear words read aloud, even in other languages. Create cards and decks in the editor mode, and review them in the player mode. The number of cards and decks that can be created is unlimited, so this is an app that could be used for many years by many people for many subject areas.
Is It Any Good?
Creating the flashcards is simple but requires some effort upfront, just as creating paper flashcards would. FLASHCARDS MAKER PRO does have text-to-speech capabilities, so it also reads the text of the card -- both question and answer aloud. It can read words in other languages, with accents, too, though the voices are pretty robotic sounding. Kids can swipe to change cards or tap to hear the words read. Shaking the device hides that card from the deck, but the shaking sensor is pretty sensitive. There's no graphics capability, so kids can only review words, and it's not the most exciting way to review information.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Parents can create cards for younger kids for any memorization content area. Experiment with traditional flashcards to see if they work for your kid's learning style.
Parents can encourage older kids to create their own flashcards. The process of creating the cards will help in the memorization of the information.
App Details
- Devices : Android , Kindle Fire
- Skills : Self-Direction : academic development , working efficiently
- Pricing structure : Paid
- Release date : February 4, 2013
- Genre : Education
- Publisher : Great White Software
- Version : 3.4.0
- Minimum software requirements : Android 2.2 and up
- Last updated : November 11, 2020
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