PIDP 3230 Assignment 3

This is what I elected to go with with my class. It's very easy to create these quizzes and games on this platform and it's really great for both in person and virtual classroom settings as well. Why exactly did I select this option? First of all, it is free. It is easy to use very engaging for the students. And what I really liked about it was that it was able enabled me to easily identify weaknesses and strengths in the learner's knowledge. It also made this really easy to track, so I can track class by class or topic by topic, areas of weakness for the students, maybe topics that I need to spend some more time on or revisit in areas where they are very strong. There are a few different options for setup. There's player versus player, you can make groups or teams, you can change the time limit and allow the students to access this all with a special pin. When I was doing this with my group, I elected a player versus player model as this was a remote classroom setting, so I thought that the group situation might be a little bit challenging. I set the time limit fairly tight at around 20 seconds per question, and I found fitting it in at the end of the lecture to be the best time. 

So I decided to add it into the end of our day. You can see here the title of my exam was or cahoot assessment was AARC one zero zero 5 module three. So this was reviewing information that was covered in module three with a group of students. So the names of the top 5 players are displayed after every question, which is a great way for students to get a little bit competitive if they want to. Players choose one answer from the options provided and then points are awarded based on not only whether or not a student got the answer correct, but also the speed of the response. So the particular group of students that I was working with, they have a great sort of competitive spirit and we're quite into it. People getting quite excited when they'd be on the top of the leaderboard so I found that to be a really fun addition that helped the group stay quite engaged. 

The correct answer is displayed after every question as well, which is fantastic, so we would pause after every question and discuss the options available to provide feedback to those who might have answered the question incorrectly. I think that's a really important piece of this. To take the time to review those incorrect answers as well. This is really important because it allows instructors to discover areas of strengths and areas of weakness or that might need attention. And then we can tweak our lesson plans accordingly. Spend more time on certain topics. This is great for students as well because they're able to evaluate their own learning immediately and see where they're strong or where they might need some more practice. And there's a really cool feature as well which allows instructors to export and excel sheet that has all the responses and that can really paint a nice picture where you can even compare it class to class over the terms or over the years and see if there are any consistencies in topics that are always weak among students, for example. 

Some benefits here as well of the system. I think I've touched on a lot of these already, but it is of course free. It promotes social learning, you can make it competitive or collaborative by doing player versus player or the teams and groups. Why I really like it again is because it allows you to offer this kind of formative assessment and adaptive learning for the students. So again, it's a great tool for reviewing concepts, taught during lecture and using that expel excel export feature is fantastic for highlighting areas of weakness for this particular group I found in this assessment that airspace classification limitations was an area of weakness. So I plan to spend some additional time in our next class reviewing that topic and I'm actually working on drafting up some practice exercises for the group as well. What I'm really looking forward to as well is using that in the future for using the same cahoot and excel feature in the future for other groups to see if this is consistently an area of weakness for students or if it just happens to be this group and I'll change my lesson plans accordingly in the content accordingly. 

There are some limitations for using cahoot, of course you need to have Internet and your students need to have devices, there has to be a projector screen where students are able to see the questions and complex answers. Don't work very well because there are character limitations. The first two items here are not really an issue for me with this group. Obviously with every online learning, you know that they have Internet and you know that they have a device and by sharing my screen I had a projector. Complex questions and answers, I tried to keep it simple, but I could see how that could be a frustration in the future. Best practices I used included chatting about the questions after every answer to consolidate learning, making sure I was prepared, you know, putting the time in and creating those questions and really making sure I was using multiple choice best practices as well. So clear questions, appropriate content, arranging the items in logical order, and so on. So that brings me to the end of my presentation, thank you for watching. Here are some of my work cited and please let me know if you have any questions at all.