I was impressed by the results of the Kahoot Challenge that I created. I tried to make my Kahoot Challenge about Middle School Social Studies and asked a variety of questions from Geography to US History, and finally, World History. I realize that with the Basic level, some questions could not be created and so that limited my challenge. I think that if I want to vary my challenges, I will upgrade to allow for more questions to be asked.
I was not sure if my questions were too easy or too hard. I will admit that I had my 7th grade daughter take my challenge and she was able to answer 9/12 correctly. She commented that she had not learned some of the topics I presented and had forgotten the years of the Civil War and WWII. She also said I should have just said Civil War, rather than American Civil War. I think her limited experience with Social Studies classes warrants that change and I was thinking of the broader World History topics. I am glad I had her feedback.
I liked the report that was provided for my Kahoot Challenge. It helped me to analyze the results of each of the players and see what percentage of correct answers were given for each question, the ranking of each player, and how long it took each player to answer each question. I was able to print the report and keep for my records. I could see how this information is helpful for teachers to go back and tweak challenges.
Given that this is the last week for this course, I wanted to say how much I enjoyed this course. I thought the material taught, the activities given, and the reading materials were relevant to teaching middle grades. I am not sure if I will be teaching middle school or high school in the future, but taking this course gave me more confidence and better resources to make me a great Middle School Social Studies teacher.
Hello and peace to all,
ReplyDeleteHello Diane,
First I want to say thanks for all your posts throughout the year. You gave a lot of great insight and wisdom… Thank you for sharing this with us/me. And thanks for this last post. It concentrated a lot on the Kahoot assignment we just did.
I echo a lot of thoughts that you had! One wonders if they made it too hard or too simple. One could wonder if they could have worded the question better…. One wonders was the question misleading…. Was it accurate? … Did it teach anything?
So these are all the types of questions that I had on my radar as well.
I never created one of these before, and I learned a lot from doing it. I learned it’s a little bit more than just simply asking questions off the top of your head. So, I’m glad I did it with the class. As I look at my results, and my questions I am considering what I could’ve said better.
One of the things that I mentioned in my blog about this topic was that, as much fun as these are, after they are finished, it’s important to explain to the class why answers were correct and why they were wrong. We, of course, did not have that opportunity as this was an online class, but I do think when I use this in the real classroom, after the quiz, I’m going to explain what was right, and more importantly, why it was right or wrong so people learn.
I also mentioned the great thing about the Kahoots quizzes is that they are fun, but they seductively get people to learn! Now one of the things I’m gonna watch out for, are those kids who don’t do so well…. I don’t want them to feel so bad…. But if only the top five answers are up there on the board for the whole class to see, then the people who are doing really poorly don’t feel like they’re being shown how bad they’re doing… So that’s good!
All in all, I really enjoy taking everybody’s Kahoots as well. I liked some a little better than others, but I enjoyed all of them, and I learned from all of them! There were couple where I questioned the answer that was called correct (I’m sure couple, some might have on min as well). But again, I thought they were all fun, worthwhile, and taught me something! I did like yours! I did learn from years as well!
Peace Diane, thanks for all your great insight…. Peace all