Battling the Bored: Engaging from the outset with Kahoot!
- 1. Battling the bored: Engaging from the outset with Kahoot! presented by John Iona @jionalib Image CC: Franck Michel. ‘Gaston is Bored’
- 2. What is Kahoot? •Quizzing/surveying tool •Multiple choice Q&A •Non-device specific •Best delivered live/in-the-room •Go to kahoot.it in a browser
- 3. Q1: what’s this? •Start off with a practice question of some kind •Maybe something light-hearted, funny(-ish) •Points for correct answers but this can be turned off
- 4. Q2: what type of source is this? • Test their knowledge – identifying a type of source from the reference • Give plenty of time for questions that take thought • Use questions of this type to see where gaps are • For this question I used an image of the reference because of the character count restriction… • I give students out an individual sheet, to show anything that needs a closer look at
- 5. Q3: when you begin research… •Survey-type questions •What are student habits, or opinions, on something you will be teaching on? •All answers are marked as correct for this (because it’s set up as a quiz) •Change your answer allowance time
- 6. Q4: what is the ft.com? • How aware are students of key resources in their subject of study? • Chance to promote a source or reiterate the importance of particular database etc • “… if you haven’t used this one by now I would be concerned…” • Follow with a question about the types of information you might find on this resource
- 7. Q5: where is the title of the journal? •Identifying particular elements on a page, or source •“Where would you find…” •Test knowledge or skills •Give shorter amount of time for some extra jeopardy...
- 8. Q6: what is the student using…? • You can also add a youtube video to your question • Ask a question for students to answer as they watch • It will start the answer timer once the video ends but students can answer while the video plays • Moves on to next question once everyone has answered… • If you want them to watch the whole thing then make your question about something that comes up at the end of the video.
- 9. Finally… • Starter or mid-session activity to: • Engage and enthuse • Set up the session and highlight potential gaps • Break and re-energise • Plenary to test/refresh learning • Challenge mode for playing outside of the session (app-only) • Set as pre-session prep to inform your planning • Set as homework to test learning and retention • Statistics for every time you use/play a kahoot… impact/assessment presented by John Iona @jionalibImage CC: Franck Michel. ‘Gaston is Bored’
- 10. Finally… presented by John Iona (@jionalib) Image CC: Franck Michel. ‘Gaston is Bored’ "Never" 14% "Some of the time" 36%"Most of the time" 21% "All of the time" 29% When you start any piece of academic research, is Google (Scholar) your starting point? "Never" "Some of the time" "Most of the time" "All of the time" 49% 51% Q4 What is this source? correct incorrect
Editor's Notes
- #2: There are times when, you’re about to start a workshop on a Friday afternoon, mid-winter, on referencing and how this can get you better grades and the group give you a look that’s a bit like Gaston’s here… I’m going to show you Kahoot as I think it’s a useful tool to engage students.
- #3: If you haven’t heard of it, it is … [explain from slide] The best way to introduce you to Kahoot, in ten minutes, is to get you playing a Kahoot… so here goes [next slides, in grey, are prompts to explain each question as we go through the kahoot. Don’t need to be shown]
- #10: Once Kahoot is completed then sum up from this slide.
- #11: Explain examples of stats taken from previous kahoots.