Summary

When I was a high school student, I always loved when my teachers included Kahoot! in their lessons, so this was a tutorial that I was really interested in doing. In my opinion, gamification is one of the most powerful ways to enhance student engagement and to bring fun activities into the classroom.

I took the Bronze certification course, which teaches educators how to find ready made Kahoot! question sets to be used in the classroom. The first thing I noticed was just how many different types of questions can be made using this platform. There are options to make puzzle, quiz, scale and open ended question types (and many more).

While I plan to make my own Kahoot! question sets in order to better reflect my class content, I was very excited to see that there are ready-made question sets available as well. This feature could be very useful as an additional tool if a class runs unexpectedly short.

Above are some of the uses for which Kahoot! can be implemented. I think that by using Kahoot! in these areas, lessons could be made more engaging, more exciting, and more diverse, which would help to hold students’ attention in the classroom.

Reflection

Kahoot! is a platform that students typically find fun and exciting to use. It has various uses and can be implemented strategically to meet the learning needs of various individuals within a classroom.

Having said that, Kahoot! could potentially be stressful for students who are easily embarrassed because of the sometimes competitive nature of the platform. One way around this is to use randomized names rather than having students put in their own names; this can help to keep the players and their scores anonymous so that students aren’t made to feel uncomfortable around their peers.

After completing this tutorial, I now feel confident using the “Discover” page to find and assign ready-made Kahoots in my future classrooms. From here I plan to continue my learning so that I am able to create my own Kahoot! questions to be used in my science lessons.