At this morning's Upper School faculty meeting, Spanish teacher Caroline shared the tech tool Kahoot (whose tag ling is "Make Learning Awesome!") by simulating a game being played in the Spanish classroom along with the help of 10 volunteer teachers who acted as the students in her "classroom." Teachers go to
get kahoot to create an account and set up a game, while students go to
kahoot it and enter the teacher's code during class to play the game. This tool can be used as a form of formative assessment to gauge student understanding in a creative and fun way. The volunteer teachers certainly had a blast this morning, as did many of the audience members! If you have a minute, take a look at Edudemic's "
Ultimate Guide to Gamifying your Classroom." Richard Byrne, author of the
Free Tech 4 Teachers blog, listed kahoot last December as one of "
15 Good Tools for Quickly Gathering Feedback from Students." Also included in those 15 was Padlet...
At the end of the faculty meeting this morning, attendees were asked to fill out an "exit ticket" by sharing one piece of constructive feedback regarding Tuesday's professional development day using the website padlet. For more information on how to use padlet, check out this
blog article by Richard Byrne on Free Tech 4 Teachers. You can also check out "
5 Ways to Use Padlet in the Classroom" by Education World. Lastly, if you decide to use it in your classroom, view this step-by step guide on "
How to use Padlet: A Fantastic Tool for Teaching" by Vicki Davis of
coolcatteacher.com.
