Kahoot!

 

Screenshot of a Kahoot! word cloud slide used to gather short responses from students and represent their answers as a word cloud.

  • Kahoot!
  • https://kahoot.com/schools-u/
  • Type of Learning (Bloom’s Taxonomy): Student actions in Kahoot appear to be on the lower order thinking skills end of the taxonomy, in “Recall,” “Understand,” and “Apply.”  It is possible that one could consider choosing among the available answers as  “Analyze” or “Evaluate”, but that seems overly generous.
  • Type of Learning experience (Dale’s Cone of Experience): Participating in Kahoot puts students at the more active, participative end of the Cone, somewhere within “Dramatic Participation,” “Contrived Experiences,” and “Direct, Purposeful Experiences.”  They are participating in recalling what they have learned, or sharing an opinion, or demonstrating their understanding. Just answering is not very creative, but it does call on the student to think critically, evaluate the question, and act based on their knowledge.
  • Integration of tool for teaching and learning:
  • Kahoot provides instructors with a tool for quizzing and surveying students through posing questions and assigning options for answers.  It can be used as a fast-paced quiz for students to try and answer the most questions correctly, but it also offers the ability to create polls or word clouds to gather input from students.  Students can provide input on how well they are understanding material in a course, without the right and wrong answer breakdown of the standard Kahoot. Word clouds allow participants to share multiple word answers that can be summarized in the cloud.  These features can be used for standalone polling or surveying, or as part of a quiz/learning presentation in Kahoot. It is a very flexible tool in that students can participate with any type of device to access Kahoot and log their responses.


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