Kahoot: What is it?
This week we researched the learning platform of Kahoot, in regard to, our question of how can Kahoot be used as a resource in the classroom & how does it connect to formative and summative assessment?
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Kahoot is a game based learning platform that makes it easy to create, share and play learning games or trivia quizzes in minutes. This interactive game allows for students to have fun while learning. It also acts as a form of assessment, whether it be formative or summative assessment (depending on how the teacher decides to use the game). Kahoot is available, easily accessible and can be used for all ages. Students may work independently or in teams to answer the questions posed by the teacher.
Kahoot is known as a formative assessment tool as children are involved in a game that evaluates their understanding and learnings. However, unlike an essay where a student can get individual feedback, it is a competitive model that evaluates the classrooms understandings as a whole. There can be feedback, however it is done based on the classes results rather than the individual project. This method allows to check students understanding and typically enhances what is being learned as they occur throughout a unit rather than just at the end (summative assessment). Although, Kahoot can also support summative assessment as children are able to create quizzes for their pears based on their learnings.
Kahoot may not be the most effective formative assessment tool but serves as a good means to support learning as it encourages students to learn and see where their classmates are at, without singling out one child (as they do not know who answered wrong). Another digital platform that came up in our research was “Formative”. This digital platform is similar however it also provides students with more options to respond (drawing, short answer and multiple choice). As such, this platform can be an extension to Kahoot and learning.
Additional Resources:
https://edutechsage.com/tag/advantages-of-kahoot/
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1141198.pdf
Partner: Brittany Johnson