You have only just started teaching literacy and this is already really helpful guidance that I would have loved to have had when I started teaching primary!
I’m a big Fibonacci fan so part of it is just that I like the sequence.
If you look at spaced repetition tools like Anki they typically use a much higher exponent with more spacing but I just found that didn’t work very well. I also don’t see students every day, students are absent, etc, so erring on the side of too much makes sense. Retrieving three days in a row to start made sense to me as a jumping-off point and from there it narrows down to something pretty close to the Fibonacci sequence.
You have only just started teaching literacy and this is already really helpful guidance that I would have loved to have had when I started teaching primary!
Love this! Very insightful, the ladder vs. spiderweb. How did you settle on Fibonacci in your retrieval frequency?
I’m a big Fibonacci fan so part of it is just that I like the sequence.
If you look at spaced repetition tools like Anki they typically use a much higher exponent with more spacing but I just found that didn’t work very well. I also don’t see students every day, students are absent, etc, so erring on the side of too much makes sense. Retrieving three days in a row to start made sense to me as a jumping-off point and from there it narrows down to something pretty close to the Fibonacci sequence.
I agree it feels very intuitive. Never thought of it, I'll try it. Thank you!