Quizzes and gamification for formative assessment ...

Quizzes and gamification for formative assessment and collaborative learning Imelda Elliott ICT for Teachers of Languages - International Webinar organised by Jürgen Wagner (Landesinstitut für Pädagogik und Medien -Saarbrücken) 12/10/2016

Photographs taken by Imelda Elliott All rights reserved

Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale (ULCO) Centre Universitaire Saint Louis 21, Rue Saint Louis BP 774 62327 Boulogne-sur-Mer Cedex France

Context of project • Teaching Irish Studies Course • How to enable language students to learn and revise vocabulary, grammar, cultural facts and dates. • How to reduce the time the teacher needs to spend on correcting tests for formative assessment (& reduce paperwork). • How to boost student engagement, motivation and learning • Use free tools (BYOD cross-platform) & cloud

Edmodo • • • • • •

LMS (Learning Management System) Groups / classes Library (unlimited file storage) Assignments Quizzes Polls

• https://www.edmodo.com

https://b.socrative.com • • • •

Versatile tool Create online quizzes Multiple choice, true/false, short answers You can also download the quiz and use the paper version as formative or summative assessment • Exchange quizzes with colleagues (Soc # reference) • See instantly what students have learned • Moreover comments and explanations can be added so that the student can revise elements that have been taught in class as well as finding out if the response is correct.

Formative assessment (FA) • FA involves the use of assessments… as sources of feedback to improve teaching and learning… • Students’ thinking must be made visible... • Opportunities to work collaboratively in groups can also increase the quality of the feedback available to students... although many students must be helped to learn how to work collaboratively. • New technologies provide opportunities to increase feedback… •

Source: Bransford, John D, Ann L Brown, and Rodney R Cocking. How people learn: Brain, mind, experience, and school. Washington: National Academy Press, 1999.

Formative assessment (FA) • FA is a central feature of the learning environment of the 21st century. Learners need substantial, regular and meaningful feedback; teachers need it in order to understand who is learning and how to orchestrate the learning process. •

Dumont, Hanna, D Istance, and F Benavides. "The nature of learning." Using research to inspire practice. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (www. educ. ethz. ch/pro/litll/oecdbuch. pdf) (2010).

Testing and formative assessment • Assessment for learning (Black & Dylan 1998) • Tests enhance learning and retention (Roediger & Karpicke, 2006). • A quiz produces better learning that rereading the text or reviewing lecture notes (Brown et al., 2014) • Formative assessment can raise standards (Black & Dylan, 1998) & can be a powerful means of improving student achievement (National Council of Teachers of English, 2010). • Teachers can help students by organising quizzes and activities around what has been done in class by the teacher • Clear assessment goals & criteria • • • •

Black, Paul, and Dylan Wiliam. “Inside the black box: Raising standards through classroom assessment”. 1998. King's College London School of Education. Brown, Peter C, Henry L Roediger III, and Mark A McDaniel. Make it stick. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014. Fostering High-Quality Formative Assessment, A Policy Research Brief produced by the National Council of Teachers of English, Illinois, US, 2010. Roediger, Henry L, and Jeffrey D Karpicke. "The power of testing memory: Basic research and implications for educational practice." Perspectives on Psychological Science 1.3, 2006, pp. 181-210.

Rewards? • What kinds of rewards to you provide for students who have worked hard and done their best during a formative assessment session (praise, badges, prizes, marks, other)?

• In your opinion, what is the difference between a quiz based on knowledge acquired at school and another on general knowledge on subjects not studied at school, (from the point of view of student achievement and of cultural capital)?

Gamification

• Gamification is the use of game design elements in non-game contexts…(Deterding et al., 2011). • All games share 4 defining traits: a goal, rules, a feedback system, and voluntary participation (McGonigal, 2012). • Digital Game-Based Learning is precisely about fun and engagement… newly emerging and highly exciting medium (Prensky, 2001). • Language teachers know the value of play and are good at finding ways of transforming what were once mundane tasks into engaging experiences by making games out of them (Purushotma et al., MIT, 20089. •

Deterding, Sebastian et al. "Gamification. using game-design elements in non-gaming contexts." CHI'11 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems 7 May. 2011: 2425-2428.

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McGonigal, Jane. Reality is broken: Why games make us better and how they can change the world. Penguin, 2011. Prensky, Marc. Digital Game-Based Learning. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001. Purushotma, Ravi, Steven L Thorne, and Julian Wheatley. "10 Key Principles for Designing Video Games for Foreign Language Learning." Open Language & Learning Games Project, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Education Arcade, 2009.

Gamification

Gamer - Drawing by Michel Sorel All rights reserved

Gamified quiz - Space race • • • •

Socrative Space (or bicycle or unicorn…) Race Very popular with students The colours are attractive and the spaceship moves forward if the replies are correct. • Only multiple choice and true/false for games

Kahoot • Teacher access: https://getkahoot.com/ Student access: https://kahoot.it/#/

Literature on SRS* (clickers) • • • • • • • •

participation self-assessment instant feedback on what students know Interaction & collaborative learning friendly competition high level of engagement student motivation contribute to learning, higher recall & retention

• *SRS = student response system

• Do you use games to teach languages? • In your opinion, which games are suitable for which age groups?

Debates using online applications • • • • • •

Start by asking a question: Socrative – Quick question Kahoot – survey Edmodo - poll e.g. Should all language teachers be obliged to use tablets in class? (https://storify.com/ImeldaElliott/can-tablets-replace-teachers) • Should cannabis be legalised? • Should violent video games be banned?

Debate

• Provide background information with a variety of sources (video, audio, text, pictures…) • Use Edmodo/Storify/Google Sites… to communicate this information • Work on comprehension, expression, grammar, vocabulary… • Then organise a debate (or dialogues or sketches depending on lmevel and age of students) • After the debate ask the same question again and see if you get the same response • Storify - https://storify.com/ • https://storify.com/ImeldaElliott • • • • •

https://storify.com/ImeldaElliott/universities-uk https://storify.com/ImeldaElliott/universities-in-ireland https://storify.com/ImeldaElliott/can-tablets-replace-teachers http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/le-ministere-et-son-reseau/storify-l-actualite-du-ministeremois-par-mois/ https://storify.com/BritishMonarchy/northern-ireland

• Thinglink is also interesting but free version is very limited (no customised icons). • https://www.thinglink.com/

Do you use crosswords and if so which digital tools do you use?

• http://www.eclipsecrossword.com/tour.html • Eclipse crossword is a programme which you can download • Crosswords for revision and formative assessment are easy to make

The easy way to send emails to pupils/students and parents • Remind 101 - https://www.remind.com • Remind offers teachers a free, safe and simple way to instantly emails students & parents. • Teachers can send reminders, assignments, homework, assessments, or motivational messages directly to students' & parents' email (phones in US). • Messages (140 characters) and attachments. • You can also schedule messages. • It is possible to use Remind to brief parents on whether their children did well in class and what their homework is for the night.

Free applications for formative assessment & diversifiying activities in language classes • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Edmodo (LMS, quiz, poll & marks) Socrative (quiz, poll, gamification, marks) Kahoot (quiz as gamification, poll & marks) Google Forms & Flubaroo (quiz & marks) Google Doc & Titanpad (questions, open answers, discussions) Padlet for collaboration Quizlet (Quizzes and games for vocabulary, culture…) Eclipse Crossword – Windows programme Remind 101 - Inform students by email Prepare multimedia content: Storify (Thinglink) TedEd lessons (video quiz) eduCanon (video quiz can be integrated into Edmodo) edPuzzle (video quiz can be integrated into Edmodo) How familiar are you with the tools mentioned above ?

• What do you think of this statement: • “A teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be”? • •

Sugata Mitra (Professor of Educational Technology) quotes Arthur C. Clarke in TedEd talk http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education?language=en,

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