And Kahoot can help you get students excited about learning. Kahoot helps make learning fun by allowing you to make your own learning games. They call them games - you can call them test reviews, quizzes, or formative assessments - whatever floats your boat.
You can create your own learning game in a matter of minutes, and Kahoot encourages you to include images, videos, or diagrams in your game to keep your students interested. Once your game is created, all you need to do is invite your players your students to join. They can join via their mobile devices, or any device with an internet connection. One neat thing about Kahoot is the physical location of the players doesn't matter.
They can join in from the same classroom, or from all over the globe. Imagine how much fun your students would have competing with students from another school, state, or country. One of my favorite things about Kahoot is there are NO accounts required for your players. Just set your learning game up, share the info, and they can sign in using the unique code provided. It's a huge time saver! With a NearPod presentation you can add a poll, create open-ended questions, or embed videos and other elements to existing PowerPoint or other presentations.
I Accept Alternatively, you you can create a new presentation within NearPod itself. So, instead of stagnant one-way information vomiting, you can have your students interact with the presentation through the elements that you include -- the quizzes, open-ended questions, and so on. You can get started quickly by using one of the app's over 2, ready-to-use Nearpods. For every NearPod presentaiton you create and deliver, you can also get reports that summarize all of your students' responses, which you can turn into grades or use for feedback and coaching.
Nearpod presentations don't have to be live, so you can also allow students to go through the material on their own time. This is perfect for students who missed material, or for setting review assignments for students to complete on their own. Of course, this makes a great flipped classroom tool. Nearpod allows students to review presentations at their own pace on their computer, tablet, or mobile device at home.
Through the use of real-time questioning, result aggregation, and visualization, you have instant insight into levels of understanding so you can use class time to better collaborate and grow as a community of learners. I Accept Using a tool such as Socrative allows you to create quick custom assessments for students. You view all the results in real-time, so no time spent grading or running papers through a scantron.
Your students do need access to technology in order to use the tool, but they'll be able to participate on any type of device. Computer, laptop, chromebook, tablet -- Socrative works on just about every type of technology!
Interested to learn about other tools for easy formative assessment? Check out one of these on-demand courses to learn the ins and outs from Dr. Jayme Linton, an experienced educator and technology trainer:.
Whether you have a class set of Chromebooks shared by your grade level team or a handful of iPads given to your class at the beginning of the year, the possibilities are endless.
Even if you have just a few digital devices in your school, there is so much you can do to take your formative assessment practice to the next level. Here are three strategies and a few favorite tools to help you leverage the power of technology to check for understanding in your classroom.
One of my favorite classrooms tools is Nearpod , an interactive presentation builder that lets you embed questions into your lesson. I loved using it in the classroom, and now I use it to facilitate professional development sessions. With Nearpod, you can place a poll at the beginning of a lesson or put a short-response question in the middle of your presentation. Embedding questions in this way can help you check for understanding over the course of a lesson. This tool is easy to use and has lots of resources for teachers getting started.
Instead of old PowerPoint presentations, you can use the ready-to-use lessons , which already have questions embedded into the activity. One disadvantage is that students can use aliases. I knew Kahoot was a winner when I finished 10 minutes early on the last day of school and my class asked to play SAT vocab review with it. It lets me make Kahoot-like games but gathers results like Socrative.
Nearpod is another fantastic tool along these lines. You can create presentations that include quizzes, assessments, drawing boards, and more. Everything is in one place. Formative Assessment With Videos: There are two uses of formative assessment with videos. I used to recommend Zaption, but that tool shut down.
And while Vizia claimed to be a replacement, I recommend Edpuzzle instead. Edpuzzle lets you embed questions in the video, interact with your students, and know how your students are engaging with digital content. The second and perhaps most exciting formative assessment method is to have students create videos to demonstrate learning.
If you want students to read to you or use audio, Fluency Tutor is a good alternative. I find this second method so exciting because it is a huge time-saver.
For example, students who are learning to count can do so on video or audio. Then, using the same app or a tool like Seesaw , a teacher can listen to and give feedback on their work after class or at another time. The long line at the teacher desk is just no longer necessary.
No Devices? But what if your students have no computers, no cell phones, no nothing? Do you have a smartphone or tablet? For verbal questions: Log in to Plickers and create a card for each student. The cards look a bit like QR codes, and students can use them to answer multiple-choice questions by rotating them one side represents A, another B, and so on.
When you ask a question, students hold up their cards with their answer at the top side.
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