Chandra Manning. 6-12 Instructional Facilitator. Asheboro City Schools. NC. USA

Friday, September 11, 2015

Hooked on Kahoot!

It was really neat to see AHS teachers using Kahoot! during the NCED Cloud/Canvas PD yesterday. Hopefully everyone saw just how easy (and engaging) formative assessments can be. Kahoot!'s quick pace, suspenseful music, and instant scoreboards keep competition lively and learners engaged. Students will definitely ask to play again and again.

Kahoot! is one those tools that you can learn about today and use tomorrow...but if you need more help, click here a step-by-step guide. (I talked to a math teacher after school who already created one to use in class.) Teachers can use it for pre-assessments, during instruction, or at the end of a lesson to gauge understanding. 

Here's an idea: Your students can also benefit from creating their own Kahoot!s as a means of review. Students who truly understand topics should be able to craft meaningful wrong answers, too. Further, Kahoot! creation can work well as a component to a research project. Students or groups could present information and then Kahoot! the class.