Today our group finished the work that begun with scenario 1. The scenario described the anxiety a teacher could have as a beginner of online teaching.
During our fist meeting we had brainstorming of how we should proceed. We came up a lot of very different ideas and decided to think about how to do until next upcoming meeting. During the two upcoming meeting we eventually decided to narrow all ideas down and only pick one, “Engagement”.
During meeting three we decided that we should make a practical list of ways to engage a student during a course. All participants did come up with at least one suggestion. Preferably one that they had tried and felt like it was working.
My contribution to the list was a recommendation to use quiz-tools like Kahoot or Menti at the end of a class or by the end of a “chapter” as “Exit tickets”. According to Paz-Albo et. al (2016) exit tickets both encourage students in their learning as well as gives teacher feedback.
My experience is that many students likes the competition part and when they know that there will be a quiz by the end of the lecture they pay more attention to the presentation. The students can of course also participate anonymously if they prefer. As a teacher you also get valuable feedback of which topics the students did find difficult and not. When having a quiz regularly during the course you get the opportunity to repeat and clarify the hard topics for the students.
References:
Paz-Albo, Jesús & Escobar, Aránzazu. (2016). Exit tickets’ effect on engagement in college classrooms. 5915-5918. 10.21125/edulearn.2016.0256.
Verily Tan
Hi Pierre, gamification can really be a wonderful source of engagement for highly technical subjects. It adds the element of fun. I know Kahoot has some nice animations and graphics. There are some comments about how the look and feel of Kahoot seem more oriented toward K-12. What do you think? Any feedback from your students? I believe it still boils down to the skill of the instructor in employing the tool at the right stage during the lesson. That I am sure you have. 🙂
lazafoto
I tried out Menti in one of my courses and and I got valuable feedback. However, I used it on a rolling basis which enabled me to track students’ progress. It is a good tool especially when used anonymously, the amount of feedback obtained is rich especially in cases where the teacher needs suggestions for improvement.
Wu Ya Jun
It is interesting to learn that quiz tools like Kahoot and Menti can be used at the end of class or “chapter” as “Exit tickets” to test students’ learning outcomes.