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Kahoot! is a website that offers multiple options to engage and assess students' learning. It is best used for reviewing previously learned content rather than teaching new material. Teachers can create their own quizzes or use pre-made ones. Kahoot! allows for multimedia integration and offers various question formats. It helps teachers track student progress, identify areas of struggle, and provide additional practice. Students can compete with classmates and receive feedback on their understanding of the material. Kahoot! can be used in any subject area and also helps teach test-taking strategies. Overall, it is a valuable tool for both teachers and students in the classroom. 21st century learners can offer many new challenges. These students nowadays need consistent stimulation and entertainment. With social media, television, and even after COVID and a lot of their learning being moved to online classes or digital classrooms, there can be many struggles to stay on top of this challenge from a dark and cold classroom. However, Kahoot! offers many options to attack this challenge. Hi, my name is Ava Mathai and welcome to Games for the 21st Century Learners. Today we're discussing the website Kahoot! and how it offers many options to keep your student engaged and learning. Now to preface, Kahoot! is a good way to have students review a topic that was previously learned. It is not something to rely on to teach content, but to assess and see how students are learning and if they are grasping the content. Kahoot! offers multiple platforms such as multiple choice, polls, and so on. Videos can be inserted into the quizzes and fun music is also added to up the engagement. Teachers can also use pictures as a way to review their students' learning. Many teachers have used Kahoot! as a way to exceed students' thinking by giving them a question and asking them to look for the wrong answer and then as a class discussing why the answer is wrong or just reviewing the class's answers as a group and discussing why the answers are wrong. A teacher has the option to either create their own quiz or find one that has already been made. This can not only help the student, but also help the teacher in lowering their workload. The teacher is able to keep the results at the end and keep track of students' total progress to see if they are struggling or learning the content. The teacher can also see what questions students are missing and discuss a review over that specific content. If students are not understanding a specific topic like addition, for example, but they are grasping subtraction, teachers can stop the Kahoot! and use it as a time to review and provide students with additional practice in this region. A teacher can also use this as an opportunity to grow relationships with their students and work in all groups or one-on-one over the results in the Kahoot! after seeing common struggles as well. Kahoot! can also be used to review in any content area needed. If you want to review division, there are many quizzes also already made reviewing the content specifically. If you want to review the United States President, Kahoot! is a great way to review this topic. Kahoot! also offers student pace challenges that allow students to move at their own pace and can allow their feedback to be more specific. As a student myself in high school, this is a website a lot of my teachers relied on. It was a lot of fun to be competitive with my classmates from a student's perspective and it allowed me to see what areas I wasn't understanding to be able to study better for upcoming tests. My teachers were able to also help explain things better for us too. My teachers in middle school love Kahoot! and would also provide incentive for us as students to try our best in the game. For example, many teachers would offer candy or free time for the students that won the Kahoot! Many students would take the challenge very seriously and try their best to be in the top five. I remember being in the top five once and I felt so proud of myself. Kahoot! also offers opportunities for teachers to review test-taking strategies such as process of elimination or reading through the question or going through and reading the passage first and then reviewing the questions or reviewing the questions first and then reading the passage, whatever. But I think the main takeaway from Kahoot! is that it is such a great tool in providing feedback for both the student and the teacher. The teacher can see areas that may need to be re-taught or areas they may not have taught super well and the student can see areas that they are struggling but also see areas that they are excelling in. All in all, Kahoot! is a great tool to use in the classroom.