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Overview
Blooket is an amazing online trivia/review game for students of all ages to use as a tool in their classrooms. It is an engaging and fun game to play in the classroom. With thousands of already made game, teachers are able to use pre-made Blookets or create their own Blooket to review with their students. You will not regret introducing Blooket to your students.
What is Blooket?
Blooket Key Features:
- Online Trivia and Quiz Review Game
- Students are able to play independently, or as a team or group to answer review questions, or just random questions for a fun game
- You can search already made review games or create your own
Already Made Blooket Games
Blookets I created
- You can search questions that are in other games, when creating your own game
- If you want to create your own blooket but do not have the time to create an entire new game, you can search for pre-made questions from other games to use for the new game you are creating.
- Unique compared to other review games
- Blooket is very engaging and interactive. Most other review games you can only "win" if you get the most amount of answers correct. Blooket any student can win so even students who may not know all the answers are still engaged and want to win because they know they are able to "win"
- Different types of "games" to play
- Just different versions of review games, here you can also pick individual games, team, or group games for the students.
- Can set a time limit or a certain goal based on the game you choose
- You can choose a time limit students are able to play or set a goal
- For example for gold quest you could put which ever students gets 1,000 gold first wins, or just set a timer like 7 minutes for examples, and the game will end after 7 minutes of playing.
- Most of the games allow students to work at their own pace
- Some of the games are timed, but most of them allow students to work at their own pace, and they will not feel rushed to answer right away without trying
- Able to see the percentage of questions each student gets correct
- After the game is over, you are able to see the percentage each student got on the questions.
- I always set a goal for my students so they are not just guessing at any questions.
- I usually set a goal of 85% accuracy and I either let them pick a peice of candy, give them a star for a prize or a ticket for the schools prizes.
How does Blooket Work?
- Choose a set of questions or create your own set of questions
- Below shows a picture of potential multiplication Blookets you can choose for your students to complete
- There are so many amazing Blookets to choose from
- Select a game mode
- There are many different types of games modes
- Some of the game modes are for individuals, or teams, or groups
- I usually pick a student to pick what game they want to play
- Gold quest is my students favorite to play at the moment
- In gold quest each student is working by themselves, they can to answer a question, and once they get 3 questions right they get to pick a chest. They are given 3 chests to pick from. The chests either have an amount of gold you reieve, or lose, nothing, or switch with another player.
- Host and join
- Teacher hosts the game-a code will pop up for students to enter into the game
- Students usually catch on quickly to understanding how to type in the code to be able to play the game
- The code for this specific game would be 904617
- Play to review
- Analyze that resutls
- Teacher is able to look at each of the students scores (based on the review game she chooses)
- With the students knowing that their teacher can check their score, it really makes them think about if they are just going to click random answers or are they actually going to put the effort into getting the correct answer
How does it work for educational purposes?
- Blooket is a review game that is very engaging for the students. Students think they are just playing a game, and usually not even realizing that they are actually review material. The review questions can be anything from vocabulary words, to math problems, to identifying a time on a clock. Teachers are able to create any questions they want for their students to answer.
- An example is a teacher wanted to review addition facts. The teacher can either "disover" addition facts that have already been created by another user, or make her own set of addition facts that they want their students to complete. The teacher will then host the game and the students just have to type a 6 digit code into their tablet and their name. Once all of the students do these two simple steps, they are able to start the game once the teacher sees all of the students have joined. The teacher is also able to look at each of the students accuracy scores once they are done with the review game.
Example:
- Teacher searches addition facts under the discover section of Blooket
- Teacher chooses which Blooket she would like to use, and check the questions to make sure the correct answer is available for each question
- Teacher chooses which game mode she would like her students to do, or ask a student to choose
- Teacher choose how much time, or how much gold students need to get for th game to finish
- Teacher presses host game and then students type in the code that is displayed for the game
- This games code would have been:963181
Institute using Blooket
Teacher at Martin Road use Blooket as a review game every single day. I have used Blooket many times to review math addition and subtraction facts with math groups. Teacher also use blooket to review their ELA vocabulary words with their class in a fun and engaging way.
In fact, I was introduced to Blooket from another teacher that learned about it. She presented it to my school, all of the teachers through a virtual meeting. She showed us how to use it, and then we all got to play. It was so fun, and my students love to play just as much as I did.
Reason I selected Blooket for this project?
- I selected this technology for this project because I think many people have not heard of Blooket and it is an excellent review game to use for students. I also chose Blooket becuase it is a technology game that I have used countless times, and the teachers I work with also use Blooket on a regular basis.
- Since I had no idea what Blooket was until another teacher told me about it, I'm sure that is the same case for other teachers. I want other teachers to be able to use this amazing technology resource in their classrooms as well.
Challenges/downside to using Blooket--Tips for users to deal with challenges/downsides
- One challenge with blooket is if students are first using blooket they are going to ask a lot of questions and ask for help. A tip for this is to just be patient with your students the first few times you use it. Once students use blooket a few times they will get the hang of it, and be able to join a game very quickly.
- Sometimes students are more concerned about winning the game instead of answering the questions correctly. I suggest telling your students that you are focusing on the accuracy at the end of the game, not the person that comes in 1st.
- Another challenge sometimes is internet issues, this is something that everyone experiences and theres nothing we can do about it. I would just have a backup when wanting to complete a blooket just incase the internet is not working.
- A challenge is also to make sure you go through all of the questions in a blooket before giving students the code. This is because students are also able to create their own blookets if they create an account. Sometimes questions and answers can be wrong or innapropriate, so teachers just need to be sure to look through the questions and answers prior to assigning it to students.
Future uses and implications of this technology in the context of three educational levels: K-12, Higher Ed, and Corporate
- Blooket can really be used for any age and for many situations.
- For grades K-12 I would use it for mostly review games for any subject. You can even use Blooket as a reward or for recess or free time. You can just pick a fun Blooket game, like what animal do you see in the picture.
- For higher ed I would use Blooket as a review game as well. Even when students are older they still love to play games and win. The Gold Rush version on Blooket is competitive and fun and at any age you want to get the most gold. No matter what age, it is an awesome game to use to review.
- For corporate, you could quiz your workers about any subject. Maybe you had a staff meeting or a business meeting and you could type the questions into Blooket to see who was acutally listening and paying attention. Another option would be to ask them random question about their place of work or history question about the company they work for. For example, if you work in a large building ask, "How many doors are in the building?" It is a great fun, engaging game for people of all ages to play.
Views on OERs
I think that OERs are great resources for people to use. I think that it is beneficial when to reuse teaching materials. Teachers are able to resue their own materials, and use other teachers materials when using OERs. Also customizing content is crucial becuase every teacher, and every student are different. Being able to customize work is important in order to meet the news of students best. In blooket teacher are able to resue other teachers blookets created as well as customize their own blookets if they want to as well. Remixing several sources is another amazing benefit with OERs. With Blooket you can combine different sets of games that other teachers have created. This allows teachers to just go through different sets and find the perfect set of questions needed. Another benefit with OERs is that you can co-create reusable content with students. Teacher could make a blooket with their students using previously created blookets or create a new blooket with their students imput. Students could also collaborate to create content and make their own blooket. That could be an assignment given to the students.
Resources
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRG8CsPAExg
https://dashboard.blooket.com/play
https://factslegend.org/blooket-play-a-thorough-guide-pros-cons/