Blog #6
This past week our guest speakers in class were Shannon Magee and Chris Fredrickson. The opic covered was the different areas of online teaching and learning. The topic that most interested me was gamification of classrooms. This topic stuck out to me because last year in Mikes class I read the book on gamification so I have prior experience researching this area.
When Shannon and Chris talked about gamification they weren't necessarily talking about video games like the previous weeks speaker Matteo DiMuro, however turning regular classroom activities and tasks into "games". Ways in doing this would to simply add a point system for completing classroom tasks or to lessons. Somewhat of a token system. Or for test review you can do a trivia game with teams, the students will have fun and not even realize that they are studying and reviewing hat has been learned.
The classic application to use for this would be the ever popular Kahoot. Kahoot is great for review and memorization and something I will most definitely use in my classroom.
Kahoot is awesome. I find a really good time to use it is if you have 5-10 minutes left at the end of the class and you already finished your lesson but still want to do some learning. There is a ton of great already made kahoots on just about every topic.
ReplyDeleteAs Riley mentioned above, I love to use Kahoot at the end of a class, especially a class where we have covered lots of content. Although it really is just a “game”, it works well as a review tool for students. Well done Dustin.
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