When Winona Wilson and I sat down to discuss how we were going to incorporate 21st Century Learning into her Algebra class' upcoming unit on exponents, we knew we wanted to try some of the tools we had used within our Practitioner Badge course. The first thing we talked about was how we thought the students had a lot of background knowledge on square and cube roots. Since that was only a guess, we decided to create a pre-assessment using Quizizz. We found that, overall, we were wrong about students having a lot of background knowledge on square and cube roots and could not just skip to the next concept. Without the Quizizz's pre-assessment we would not have met the students needs.
Link to the Quizizz Pre-Assessment on Square and Cube Roots
Link to Pre-Assessment Data
This activity fell under the Use of Technology for Learning competency at the lowest level; students use technology during the activity. The purpose of this activity was more for us as the teachers than the students themselves as it provided invaluable data as to what concepts we needed to address with the students in upcoming lessons.
A couple of notes about using Quizizz:
- Students liked the program but as a pre-assessment ONLY. Students felt pressure with the timer and seeing other's scores.
- Some students liked seeing scores and other students didn't.
Another note about it: it was easy to use, has math tools, and gives the teacher a lot of control. I think that if I use this again in the future, I will make sure the scores, sounds, and pictures are turned off. Several of the students were not happy with the pictures popping up between the answers because they felt like they were getting made fun of.
ReplyDelete