I decided to finally check out a tool that our college teaching development team has been raving about all year, Kahoot. As a staff, we had played a short ten question game of it during back to school meetings in the fall, but there was so much going on little attention was really given to it. First of all, part of its intrigue are the two words I used to describe my experience, play and game.
So what is Kahoot? I discovered it's a free online quiz program. So I just now made an account, and looked at the developing side of it. It's very intuitive, simple, and quick to use. You write a question, link video or images if you choose, and write your choices. When you're ready to play, on a central device from the developing site, select the quiz, the participants then google "kahoot on their smartphone, tablet, laptop etc., go to the Kahoot players website which immediately asks for a pin number, which is shown on the central screen, and then the quiz begins. You can select music, question timers, question scoring which also scores for speed, and displays a leader board. I'm not necessarily a fan of the latter, but the options are there. You can also select your questions to be randomized, as well as the answers, and statistics display the number of correct responses to each question. Essentially this is like an evolved TurningPoint. Reviewing this way is certainly more engaging than the traditional methods, and reduces student anxiety as they have the ability to answer anonymously if the points option is not selected. This could prove to be a good group assignment, having a small group begin each class reviewing previous material. The drawbacks are the 1,000 character question limit, as well as limited space for the answers, so it seems to be good for factual type questions only, and does not seem to be able to incorporate multiple multiples - a standard question type of paramedic testing. I often like to quiz with short answers to truly ascertain comprehension and recall, not just recognition, but this will certainly be an interactive tool that will add variety to my classroom. The developer site is found at: getkahoot.com The students would then visit: https://kahoot.it/#/ Check it out, super easy.
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AuthorI teach Paramedicine at Cambrian College, in Sudbury, Ontario. I also continue to work as a paramedic, and ride bikes. This is my third semester in the PME program, and I look forward to learning with everyone! Archives
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