Kahoot within a classroom can be many ways by students and teachers alike. Teachers can create various styled quizzes to promote understanding of different subjects and content areas. In our previous post about how to create a Kahoot, there are multiple different styles of quizzes that you can create. Teachers can also use this as a fun tool to engage students in expanded learning as well as fun brain breaks to get students back on track and away from traditional activities. Kahoot further allows students to use their own devices which may allow them to feel more personal connection with their learning. Students can also use Kahoot! to conduct research, review content, create engaging presentations, and recognize their own improvement through saved scores under their profiles (Bharti, 2014).

Furthermore, Kahoot! can be used within the classroom to assist teachers with formative assessment. As the application is able to save student’s scores and data under their profiles, teachers are able to check-in and assess where students are being clearly understood as well as where they may be struggling. Kahoot! can be used as a pre-assessment tool to see what students may already know and to introduce new content. It can be used throughout a unit to measure the accumulation of understanding from students (Mendoza, 2018).

 

Research retrieved from: 

https://edtechreview.in/news/1490-how-kahoot-can-help-teachers-to-engage-students EdTech Review, How Kahoot can Help Teachers to Engage Students, Written by Prasanna Bharti, 15 September 2014

https://learnsafe.com/using-kahoot-in-the-classroom/ LearnSafe, Using Kahoot! In the Classroom, Written by Jonathan Mendoza, 27 September 2018.

By Kate and Holly