Gamify your classroom with these 5 amazing edtech tools

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[Music] hello everyone I'm back with some fun apps that will rock your classroom today in atch school I'll show you five amazing live atch games the first game is quiz and life it's made for practicing terms and definitions students work together in order to find the right word or definition the tricky thing is you can't see which description your teammates have if someone makes a mistake his team has to start all over again you need at least 12 descriptions or terms to play Quizlet live you've probably already heard of cahoot cahoot engages students and its competitive exactly the cup of tea of students nowadays they have to tick off the right answer as quickly as possible for every right answer they gain points the faster they answer correctly the more points they get cahoot is also useful for teachers because it gives insights to what students do and don't know on top of that it's also very easy to use students love it because they can answer questions just by tapping the right color on their devices if you want them to collaborate more use cahoot team mode one device more students are they able to collaborate and still answer really quickly and correctly the third live game is classcraft this game encourages students to live live by your class rules students can create their own avatars that have special powers they play in groups if someone ignores a deadline it may fire back on the whole group working together and having respect for each other is very important students can gain points by playing by the classroom rules for example students who help other students receive 10 points when they have enough points they can use a special power for instance the warrior can eat in class they can also lose those points by not playing by the rules and even get a sentence for example bring a treat for the whole class tomorrow you as a teacher can choose all the powers and sentences yourself next up flickers flickers is a real-time assessment tool it lets your students answer multiple choice questions anonymously because it's Anonymous every student participates even the shy ones you can instantly see how the class did with a simple bar chart it only requires the smartphone app and the flickers cards which you can get for free on the website you ask a multiple choice question and the students answer it by showing a card each side of a card represents a question letter A B C or D when all cards are raised you simply scan the cards with the flickers app plickers can be used in all classrooms from K to 12 to University and is a great tool for for itive assessment warm-ups exit tickets and lesson Refreshers another very handy live tool is padlet with pedet you can create an online board that you can share with every student or teacher you want just give them the link it allows everyone to add content to the same shared document Whoever has the board opened on its device can see what everyone is writing use it for live brainstorming writing down questions or collecting bookmarks pedet is the online answer to endless email conversations this was atex school for today we have two more fun games for you on our blog feel free to take a look don't forget to hit the Subscribe button to catch our weekly video bye