Kahoot is a great website for teachers to create real-time quizzes for group discussion. The site effectively engages the entire class, as teachers post a question on a shared screen and students use their own devices to answer. There are options for multiple choice, discussion (i.e. short answer) or survey questions. Teachers program an unlimited number of questions in advance and have the option to include images or videos. Students can have from 5 to 120 seconds to answer. Teachers could decide to have students participate individually or as part of a team, and if they want to display student answers on-screen or call on students to explain their answer (e.g. can someone who responded "C" explain why). They also have the option to display a scoreboard, which can make Kahoot feel more like a fun game than quizzing. Overall, this site can be a great way for teachers to have students interacting and responding by using their own devices as motivation and creating a game-like atmosphere. However, this site might require teachers to be more sensitive to classroom dynamics, including students with slower processing speed, students who might have difficulty reading questions or answers independently, anxious students, or very competitive students.

• Provides sufficient and varied types of practice problems to maximize understanding and generalization of the targeted skill/concept
• Manufacturer claims alignment with Common Core/Known Standards
• Presents educational concepts accurately
• Explains answers so students can learn from mistakes
• Better for teaching the skill to new or struggling learners
• Better for practicing or refreshing the skill
• Skills are practiced through authentic, meaningful problems (not just rote practice)

• Appropriate for a broad age range to use and enjoy
• Subject matter and problems are relevant, interesting and authentic to students
• Visually appealing to children in the target age range
• Provides virtual rewards or incentives after meeting specified goals or objectives
• Provides a "break activity" between academic problem sets
• Offers ongoing, progressive challenge
• Overall - Enjoyable. Given the option, students would choose this option

• Has a free or trial version
• Provides teaching guidance for adults to support the child and set appropriate goals
• Provides an age-appropriate tutorial/first time users can work independently
• Student should be able to use independently after first use
• Has a multi-player option to foster in-person collaboration or cooperation
• Multiple users can save a profile
• Student graduates to the next level or topic only after meeting a benchmark
• Can play without sound and not distract others
• Students can save work between sessions
• Can effectively understand and monitor student's progress (email report or in product)
• Requires registration before using the first time
• Provides options to play in languages other than English/Good for ELL
• Presents information in multiple formats (voice over, pictures and text, etc.)
• Overall - Easy to use

• Anxiety
• Multi-player activity with a clear 'winner' and 'loser'
• Student cannot take as much time as needed to read text
• A player's success depends on speed
• Timer cannot be hidden
• Turn or quiz abruptly ends when timer runs out
• Auditory Processing
• A player's success depends on speed
• Turn or quiz abruptly ends when timer runs out
• Processing Speed
• Student cannot take as much time as needed to read text
• A player's success depends on speed
• Timer cannot be hidden
• Turn or quiz abruptly ends when timer runs out
• Reading Basics
• Student cannot take as much time as needed to read text
• Social Awareness
• Multi-player activity with a clear 'winner' and 'loser'
• Visual Motor Speed
• A player's success depends on speed
• Timer cannot be hidden
• Turn or quiz abruptly ends when timer runs out
• Student will need to copy or write multi-digit math problems
• Working Memory
• Student cannot take as much time as needed to read text
• Turn or quiz abruptly ends when timer runs out
• Student will need to copy or write multi-digit math problems