Technology Lesson Clay Goupil

All right, so for this assignment I made a cahoot. Cahoot is something that I've used before, not actually in my own personal classes, but as a student before, it was kind of before my own time for when I was still like a public school student and I actually never used it in college either. I've used it primarily in the army. So there have been different times throughout my army career where I'm using different things like cahoot or quizzes is another thing that many schools use today when I was a substitute teacher I would use quizzes very frequently in class. That was something that teachers would often leave for me to do as a substitute. And so who quizzes and then there's this similar platform, but those are the two most popular. Those are what we're going to look at today. So today, excuse me, I made a cahoot for a vocabulary quiz. So this is actually a quiz that I made myself for one of my social studies courses. I teach 7th-grade and 8th-grade social studies. And so I basically made a cahoot for a true or false look at the vocabulary we have for last week's. I haven't actually made the next vocabulary quiz for the next chapter we'll be looking at. So I'm using last week's just as a sample. But certainly I can use something like this in the class classroom more regularly where we're looking at something like cahoot or quizzes to help us kind of look and use technology for the purpose of getting a better understanding of our content. So vocabulary works especially well for this because one, it fits well in the cahoot format where you've got different options there. There are different varieties of questions they don't all have to be true or false, of course. But this is especially good for a number of reasons. The biggest being that kids just love using something like cahoot. It is a bit of a challenge to use this in my own classrooms because we don't allow phones or anything like that. We do have computers that they can use and that would basically be how we have to do this. Other than the typical, more often probably used cell phone, which is all I've ever personally used when I've done cahoot games before. Excuse me. But that is what we'll be using for my class. So here we have a sample questions. I'll go to the next one that we haven't looked at yet. So we've got this subsistence farming. It's a true or false question. And essentially the way it would work is since obviously answer true or false, and at the end of a round, they would get points based on how they performed. So the big idea here is it's a way to get students to be a little more engaged with the vocabulary of this process. Probably for simplicity's sake, I would only really use this for review, I think as far as doing this as the course itself can be a little dicey just because students make up their own names or they can be kind of hard to track exactly how I would want to grade this based on the way who kind of measures scoring. That's not necessarily how I would personally want to do it. So I would probably use this as a review either for a tester for this example, a quiz on vocabulary. Just to kind of put our thoughts together before we get into the process of actually taking a formal assessment.