My class loves playing Kahoot and Quizlet Live. I told the students that next semester they might get a teacher who doesn't use Kahoot and they were very surprised. For this reason, I have decided to teach my class how to make their own kahoots. More on that a bit later. On Friday, I subbed for another class. During the break I was able to spend some time talking about how I use technology with two other Pre Level teachers. It started off by saying ways they try to engage the students so that students would not use the phones. I mentioned that they might want to try using the phones to engage the students. One teacher dug deeper into my psyche by asking me how and what I did. I told her that I started off using Remind, then once the students were familiar with that we moved on to Quizlet and so on and so on. She mentioned that I seemed to be layer technology onto instruction. I loved her use of the word "layering". I think that is how I approach everything I do in teaching students language and technology is no exception. The other instructor discussed how she felt that the digital divide was too big for those older students without phones. (In my classroom every student has a phone of some sort). I mentioned that she could group the students together. She still felt it was inequitable. I hope to deal with that concern later in another post after I give it some more thought. So today I made a short 2 minute video teaching students how to sign up with Kahoot. I plan on posting the video on our Facebook group and through remind. I want to see if any of my tech savvy students will sign up for an account before class. I will use the video on Monday in the lab and have students get an account. I will then teach them how to make a game using the included Getty Images that are now embedded into the program. I have embedded the video I created below:
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Susan Gaer
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