Overall Experience- The overall experience with Kahoot is always great! The students really enjoy the friendly competition, engagement, earning possible extra credit points, bragging rights, and doing something different in the classroom.
Engagement- Most, if not all the students were engaged in the lesson activity. They always enjoy seeing in real time their results, how they're doing, and if they're moving up or down the leaderboard. That always seems to create some friendly banter, competition, and bragging rights between friends and classmates. Also, the top three finishers that finish on the podium at the end of the game receive extra credit points on their upcoming unit test.
Whole-class Pacing- Most Kahoot activities that I do normally have 20-25 questions with a timer set between 20-30 seconds (depending on the content and make-up of the question). Most, if not all the students were able to complete the questions in the allotted time. The activity was used as a review tool for an upcoming unit test, which took up the majority of the class period.
For next time, I would probably add a few more content-related questions, along with different types of questions (besides for just multiple choice questions). Also, I would probably incorporate more images to further enhance and engage the students with- political cartoons, charts, graphs, maps, etc. Overall, it was a great experience. It's always a good day and class period when we're using Kahoot as a review tool for both the students and myself!
Engagement- Most, if not all the students were engaged in the lesson activity. They always enjoy seeing in real time their results, how they're doing, and if they're moving up or down the leaderboard. That always seems to create some friendly banter, competition, and bragging rights between friends and classmates. Also, the top three finishers that finish on the podium at the end of the game receive extra credit points on their upcoming unit test.
Whole-class Pacing- Most Kahoot activities that I do normally have 20-25 questions with a timer set between 20-30 seconds (depending on the content and make-up of the question). Most, if not all the students were able to complete the questions in the allotted time. The activity was used as a review tool for an upcoming unit test, which took up the majority of the class period.
For next time, I would probably add a few more content-related questions, along with different types of questions (besides for just multiple choice questions). Also, I would probably incorporate more images to further enhance and engage the students with- political cartoons, charts, graphs, maps, etc. Overall, it was a great experience. It's always a good day and class period when we're using Kahoot as a review tool for both the students and myself!