My MLA Year - Dundee City Council
Download as PPTX, PDF1 like98 views
Beatriz Píriz Rico highlights her use of the educational game Kahoot! with her students. She found that students were engaged with using their mobile phones in class and enjoyed playing the game multiple times. Kahoot! helped motivate students and see their progress. Beatriz also discusses a student exchange project where students in Scotland and Spain recorded videos of themselves speaking English and shared them online to practice oral skills and learn about different varieties of English. Some students did not receive permission to share videos publicly, but others enjoyed watching themselves and peers from the partner school speaking.
My MLA Year - Dundee City Council
- 1. Beatriz Píriz Rico Spanish MLA Dundee City Council Highlights of my British Council Language Assistantship 2016-17
- 2. (1) M-Learning and BYOD (Bring Your Own Device): Kahoot! Trying to do something different, I dared to use Kahoot! for the first time with S3. It is a free online resource that allows teachers to create sets of questions and students join with their own phones. They need them to select the correct answer from the 4 given. It has been very useful to introduce new vocabulary as well as to revise.
- 3. Pupils’ reactions when being told to take their mobile phones to learn were memorable. One kid said It is the first time we use our mobile phones in class!! Even ‘reluctant’ learners got engaged in the game, see this picture – hands to head because he didn’t get the correct answer!
- 4. Once we finished, students asked to play again. My other school beats the record: we played the same set of 10 questions up to 3 times! “Kahoot! enhances motivation and engages students in an exciting competition. They see their names on the board, for them it’s like being on a show, and there’s a lot of interactivity. It’s also good for teachers – we can see pupils’ achievement and engagement”. To find out more about Kahoot! follow this link - https://getkahoot.com/
- 5. Aims • Promote oral skills by recording videos speaking in the L2 • Enhance self-confidence • Have access to what is known as “World English” The initial idea • Videos would be uploaded to a shared blog so that a school in Spain could see us, and vice versa. It would be like having a blog pal! See the project here: https://exchangeschoolprogram.wordpress.com/ (2)
- 6. Challenges • Explicit parents’ permission for this project was needed as videos had to be uploaded to YouTube and then to the blog. Some Scottish students did not bring in those forms. As a result, their videos could not be uploaded on the blog were sent privately to the Spanish teacher. Positives • While some pupils were very shy in front of the camera, others quite enjoyed the experience of recording and watching themselves later on. It was interesting for the Scottish students to see Spanish students speaking in English – they were surprised by their fluency! How to improve • More interactivity might be achieved if students did “video messaging” – they ask questions and receive answers from the students in the partner school abroad.