Kahoot! Inside and Outside the Classroom Game Changer

If you have not experienced Kahoot! by either hearing of it, or playing it, you must do so ASAP!  I first played Kahoot! at a Discovery Ed Streamathon with thousands of other educators across the world with a live video stream.  It was fantastic.  Kahoot! became something that I adopted very quickly after in the classroom.  It was something that students asked for.  They always wanted more.  We also kept a continuous leader board of scores.  I really like what Michael Matera @mrmatera did with his students in creating small competitions within a whole class game by having students put numbers in front of their names that matched up with the "crew" students were competing within.

The intent of this post isn't to tell you what I do,  it's to show what students came up with as a result of playing in our classroom.  I got approached by the junior class advisors about a game we play in APES.  Apparently students were talking about it at the prom committee meeting and decided that they wanted to play at prom to provide time between dinner and dancing for stomachs to settle.  I advised them of what they'd need and a group of students came to visit me to see what it was all about and then...THEY did it. A group of students created their own Kahoot! around the theme of Hollywood and successfully executed it at prom.  I only answered their questions, and showed up the night of prom just in case they had technical issues.  If they did, quite honestly, I'm not sure that I would have been the one to figure it out.  They executed it very well!  I was really proud of them.  I think the most rewarding and exciting piece was seeing current and former students that I had, light up because we would frequently play in class.  They even asked if I was behind it and I gave the credit where the credit was due...my students.



Keep in mind that each day in the classroom and every interaction you have with a student, you have the power to inspire.  This was just one of those moments for me.  Go the extra mile, you never know where it will take you or your students in the future.
Kahoot! should be something that all students and teachers are exposed to.  What a great way to start or end a staff meeting to get some friendly competition going after a busy day.

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