Kahoot Description: Kahoot is a game-based learning tool that allows students to review content from the classroom. Students can collaborate together on teams or individual.

Website: kahoot.com

Cost: Free online.

Pedagogical Uses: Kahoot offers teachers opportunities to assess students at certain skills.

Idea 1: Open Kahoot and create a quiz to check for understanding.

Idea 2: Have students create their own Kahoot on a specified topic.

Idea 3: Students play in teams to work together on a specified topic.

Idea 4: Assign Kahoot as homework.

Why should teachers use it?

Kahoot provides a fun and engaging way to give students assessments related to their learning standards. Students enjoy a 'game' to play while teachers read aloud the prompts. This learning tool has always made my students get excited and have to use many different skills.

ISTE Standards

Teacher Standards:

#6 - Facilitator: 6d. Model and nurture creative and creative expression to communicate ideas, knowledge, or connections.

Student Standards:

#1 - Empowered Learner: 1d. Students understand the fundamental concepts of technology operations, demonstrate the ability to choose, use and troubleshoot current technologies and are able to transfer their knowledge to explore emerging technologies.

How To:

Then edit or add questions by typing in the header. Make sure to add more than one answer. Click the answer that is correct for students to be awarded points.

Students will use their device to put in the code to play the game!

PROS

Multiple choice answers.

Engages students.

Students use decisive decision skills by clicking on the answer they see is best fit.

Game based learning.

CONS

One way to play the game.

Prompts are not read out loud to students.

Written answers are not available on student screens. Rather it is just the shape they click.

Students can get very competitive and look down on themselves when they do not do well.

Resources:

https://kahoot.com/library/kahoot-logo/