Kahoot!+Colby+Davis

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= = Introduction Kahoot! is an interactive site that students can utilize inside and outside of the classroom. The teacher has three options in how to use the website; they can create a quiz, create a survey or post a discussion question. Students can use Kahoot! in teams or as individuals from anywhere. Yes, I said it, from anywhere.

About Kahoot! Students can use laptops, iPads, other tablets, desktops and their smartphone to participate in Kahoot!. Kahoot! is a free website that allows the teacher or students to create quizzes, surveys or discussions using multiple forms of technology. Setting up the account and going through the tutorial is an easy process and there is a 2 minute video clip that shows how easy it is to use Kahoot!. Developing the quiz, survey or discussion is relatively easy. The program gives you the option to download photographs or add a video to any of the three. The user types in the question and the answers and clicks on the tabs below each answer and marks the answer correct or incorrect. One can also set the language, the time given for the response and if you want to give points for a correct answer. Teachers can have students, either as individuals or groups, create the questions and the answers. This is another tool for the teacher to use to see if the students understand the content.

My Experience I created a quiz, a survey and a discussion so I could experience all that this site had to offer. As I stated previously, creating the quiz is pretty easy. I wanted to see how each program functioned using a laptop and my iPhone. The teacher has to open the quiz before the students begin. Students need to go to https://play.kahoot.it to login. If you want to see the quick quiz, discussion or survey search for EDUC 573. Once the students are there, it will ask them for the 4 digit pin that is on the homepage of the quiz. Once they put that in they are asked for a nickname and then they wait for the teacher to start the quiz. Here lies my main dislike of the entire program. When the quiz begins the only place the question and answers are located is on the smartboard. Whatever device the students are using they only have the color coded shapes on their screen. At first this is a little confusing because you are wanting to read the answer off of your device. Once they answer they are told on their screen if their answer was correct or incorrect and if correct how many points they obtained. At the end of the question it will tell them what place they are in. On the smartboard it will show the top 5 for that question only, it will not show the running score for each student or team. The teacher will be able to view each students score on their screen once all of the questions are completed.

I was disappointed in what they call the discussion. I was expecting a blog type of discussion board of the posted question or problem. Instead, what you create is another multiple choice question for the students to answer. I am assuming that the actual discussion will take place in the classroom once all have answered the question. The teacher can see the percentages of each answer and can facilitate the discussion. The survey is very similar to the discussion in the fact that it is all multiple choice questions. The results come out in a separate tab in an excel spreadsheet. I found this to be a useful tool that could be used for the students incorporating a little math into the class. The teacher can create a live classroom discussion over the question and results instead of it being an online blog type of discussion.

There are many positives in using Kahoot! in the classroom. I believe that it is a tool that the students will enjoy using and it gives the teacher some options of how to incorporate it. I particularly like the fact that students can create their own questions and answers and the opportunity for some in class discussion is good. Below is the link to the introduction page for Kahoot! It gives a good tutorial and explanation of the functional uses of Kahoot!

https://getkahoot.com/



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