Alright kids, it's time for honesty. Here's a tidbit your 3rd-grade teacher isn't about to admit, but he / she and everyone else in the world crams for tests. Sorry, we know you totally believed that each and every noble student dutifully set aside hours per day to prepare for that big final, but in reality, every kid in your classroom just got on the study train a few hours ago. To that end,
LeapFrog has concocted a
perfectly named study aid dubbed the Crammer ($59.99; available now), which enables kids to "quickly navigate more than 16,000 mathematics, social studies and science quiz questions based on leading school textbooks." Additionally, students can create customized digital flash cards for on-the-go cramming, and the built-in Spanish translator even gives you an edge in the foreign language department. Seriously, where was this at when we were using abacuses and carving English reports into stone tablets?
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posted October 13th 2008 10:05PM
USMLE and related Medschool cards would make this sell, and get a real customer base.
Think they'd make one for acupuncture students? ;)
I have a LOT of points and herbs to learn and memorize in the next three years, haha.
ha! @windzilla
didnt even read your comment. was too busy thinking about how awesome this would be for the step. i take it this spring.
i commented below for us med students too.
that would be great for learn my japanese with flash cards!
This is exactly what I was thinking. I wonder how "custom" the customized digital flash cards can be.
sorry leapfrog, but i have a similar app on my TI-84+SE
Yeh I was gonna say the same!
I had this app on my TI 83+ a looong looong time ago already!
What is very sad, is I have a feeling that the game button will have a big oily print above it, while the other areas will remain blissfully clean. :(
pretty cool, I might want one for learning all my AP Bio vocab.
What sort of CPU does it have? And what's the screen resolution (doesn't look high, though...)?
(Read: Is it worth trying to hack?)
It's not like programs like this for portable devices common to students have existed for ages ... oh, wait, THEY HAVE.
I'd rather spend the money on a decent graphing calculator with a flash-card program - it'll serve you MUCH better in the long run. Now, if only the new TI line (even the 'CAS' version) didn't pale in functionality versus a TI-89 or HP-49 ...
Crammer is for kids, you silly rabbit!
was I the only one expecting a sweet technology to replace a totally different sort of flash card?
nope.
Now this is pretty cool.
Giddyup!
for medical students please,
kthx
Great, just what this generation needs: another way to ostensibly increase the breadth and truly decrease the depth of any and all knowledge that attempts to penetrate their now atrophied brain cavity mush.
The problem is that this thing is designed for REALLY young kids.
It says grades 3-12 but the only thing they have is 3-8 (most are 3-4)
If they added more flash cards, like REAL language learning it could be good but as is it
this is totally for kids
Uhm....
You guys look like you already announced and wrote about this products....in February of this year.
Was it really that fascinating?