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What do you think of games? Are they good or bad? One of the reasons why students like to play video games is that games can give them enough competitive stimulation. The competitive environment and the desire to win can make students not afraid of failure and more motivated to improve their game competence in order to win in the future. What if we use this kind of mechanism in learning and teaching contexts?
- For students, a healthy competitive environment can fuel their desire to win. In the case of individual competitions, students are expected to have a good grasp and application of knowledge if they want to succeed. In the case of team competitions, students are expected to have a sense of teamwork and the ability to work together to solve problems.
- For teachers, compared to traditional practice tests, the use of competitive games not only can increase students' interest in learning but also provide intuitive and immediate insights into students' acquisition of a particular piece of knowledge.
Advantages of Kahoot
- It is a visual and interesting type of quiz.
- It enables teachers to receive feedback from their students immediately and explain according to students' performances.
- Teachers and students can create and conduct in a few minutes.
- Teachers can use it for various activities, such as ice-breaking, practice part of PPP, TBLT, etc.
- It can be efficient to check the understanding of knowledge, especially grammar and vocabulary. Here is a video about how to use Kahoot in a grammar lesson:
Disadvantages of Kahoot
- Free version can only have access to limited functions.
- Students may be too competitive.
- Some students with reading difficulties may find it difficult, because most of the questions are written texts. (Teacher can repeat the questions by reading out loud.)
How to create my own quiz?
Overall, the creation process is really easy. You can simply put the questions at the top and some answers in different boxes with different colours. You can also change the question type on the right-hand side of the page.
If you want more details about Kahoot in language teaching, this video will be a good help for you!
Hope this week's content is helpful for your language-teaching journey. Let's Compete and Learn Better!
Hey, Evian! I really like your blog. This latest post about Kahoot is fantastic. Well done! I have never used Kahoot as a teacher, only as a student. But I always have a lot of fun when I play it, and I am sure that my students will enjoy it too. It was very useful to read your perspective on why it is important to use games for both students and teachers; It really motivated me to think of strategies that will allow me to use more games in my classrooms. Also, you were very honest about the advantages and disadvantages in using Kahoot with our students. Thank you so much for this wonderful post!
ReplyDeleteHi, Evian. I think Kahoot is a little bit similar to Wordwall cuz Kahoot is also useful and practical for concept-checking. But KahootIt may be more useful for more advanced skills, such as comprehensions of concepts and their applications, while wordwall is more useful for the cognition of language forms.
ReplyDeleteHi Evian, I really like the way you introduced the topic (the game) and the technology (kahoot). Specifically, you brought up a very interesting point about using competitive stimuli in a learning and teaching context. You not only write the benefits of this software, but also its disadvantages, which is very helpful to me! One suggestion is that you could make the video bigger? It looks a bit small.
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