Category: Free Inquiry

For tutorial 3, I chose to learn more about Kahoot and how I can implement it into my teaching practice. Kahoot is a fun quiz-based activity that engages students by gamifying content. Kahoot can be used as an educational tool as teachers can either check students’ previous knowledge of a concept or check students’ understanding of a newly learned concept. 

I think Kahoot is an excellent tool to increase learning engagement and participation within classes. Implementing Kahoot into classrooms can be a way that, as a teacher, I can continually develop professionally by building new technological skills. To help with this professional development, Kahoot can be accessed for free, and those accounts receive the basic model with a couple of different question styles. I found that the free account works just fine, and I can create sufficient Kahoots with it. However, with the paid account, there are more question styles to choose from and it offers more options for creative freedom. The screenshots below are examples from a Kahoot I have developed, and they show the two different types of quiz questions that can be used. With the free account you can choose from the first two types of questions, either multiple choice style or true or false style.

Below are examples from the type of question styles I used in my Kahoot that I created

I haven’t ever made a Kahoot and implemented it in a classroom, but I have played Kahoot as a student, so I know how engaging they can be. For this tutorial, I explored Kahoot and started to create my own Kahoot that I could potentially use in a Social Studies 10 class. Not only would I implement a Kahoot in a social studies class, but I would also like to try it out in a physical and health education class. In PHE I could use Kahoot to check students’ understanding after delivering health content. In my future teaching practice, I will be using Kahoot as a way to formatively assess my students. 

For this tutorial, I learned how to create a presentation through mentimeter. I used this tool to assess how my students grasped the concept of a lesson. This way of using metimeter can provide me with feedback from students on how well they understood a concept, what I need to go over next lesson, and also allow students to reflect on how they participated within class. 

I answered and voted on my own presentation to show how it would look if a student answered the questions for the teacher; this is shown below. 

I have never used mentimeter before, but after completing the course and creating my own mentimeter, I was pleasantly surprised. I was unaware of how, as a teacher, you can use this tool to not only deliver content through presentation style but then assess students after. Not only do the assessment tools in mentimeter provide feedback for teachers, they also have the ability to make students reflect on their learning processes. In addition to teachers using a mentiometer as a post-assessment, they can also use a mentimeter for a pre-assessment to determine what students know before a lesson. I have also seen Twitter be used as a tool for creating class engagement by having students vote on how they are feeling today using images or emojis.

In the future, I will be using mentimeter at the beginning and ending of my classes for assessment purposes as well as engagement purposes. Mentimeter is a productive tool that teachers can use to increase student participation within their classes.

For this tutorial, I learned how to create surveys and quizzes within Google Forms. I created my own survey for the beginning of a PHE class. I chose to do this tutorial as I could see myself using Google Forms in my classes as a future educator for surveys and quizzes. Creating a survey in Google Forms can be useful when getting to know your class or assessing their knowledge on a topic with low stakes. Additionally, creating a quiz through Google Forms is useful as it can be a quick and easy assessment tool. 

This tutorial showed me how Google Forms can save teachers lots of time in relation to marking quizzes. For example, with Google Forms, once you create your survey or quiz, change the settings so that you can create an answer key for the quiz. Once you create an answer key, Google Forms will automatically mark the test and give students their mark back right away once they have submitted their quiz. Another helpful option that Google Forms offers is being able to make each question in the form required, therefore ensuring every student has answered all the questions in the quiz. 

Most schools in Victoria operate through Google Classroom, so having a deeper understanding of how to use the tools within Google, such as forms in this case, is very beneficial. In conclusion, I will be using Google Forms in my future practice to create surveys or quizzes, as it is quick and easy to access and use.