In an era where digital technology plays a vital role in our daily lives, learning is no longer confined to classrooms and textbooks. Currently, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is playing a crucial role in revolutionizing education, making learning easier, more interesting, and more accessible. The Teaching and Learning Innovation Center, Khon Kaen University, as a leader in educational innovation development, would like to introduce 4 interesting AI technologies that will help you understand the digital world more deeply and make learning as fun as stepping into a classroom of the future.
1. Kahoot: Transform Classroom into a Positive Competitive Game Environment
Kahoot is an innovative educational tool that creates a game-based learning environment. It can be effectively applied to teaching and learning management, promoting creative learning and classroom enjoyment. This tool is suitable for use in educational institutions at all levels, from schools and universities to organizations seeking to develop their teaching methods through modern technology.
Benefits of Using Kahoot in Teaching
- Increases Fun and Engagement: Transforms traditional lectures into exciting game-based learning, encouraging students to become more engaged and enthusiastic about learning.
- Quick Learning Assessment: After each game, teachers can immediately view individual student responses, helping identify strengths and weaknesses to adjust teaching methods accordingly. Students can also see their scores instantly.
- Creates a Friendly Learning Environment: Playing Kahoot together in class helps build relationships between teachers and students, as well as among students themselves.
- Promotes Positive Competition: The competition to answer questions quickly and correctly motivates students to learn and improve themselves.
- Various Question Formats: Kahoot supports multiple question types such as single-choice, multiple-choice, sequence, and matching, allowing teachers to design games suitable for different subject content.
- User-Friendly: Both teachers and students can easily use Kahoot! without requiring complex technological knowledge.
2. Mentimeter: Interactive Tool for Modern Classroom Engagement
Mentimeter is an online platform that enhances presentations and lectures through various interactive formats. It allows participants to respond to questions or provide feedback in real-time via their mobile devices, enabling presenters to quickly gauge audience opinions and understanding of the content.
Benefits of Using Mentimeter in Teaching
- Enhances Classroom Interaction: Mentimeter transforms traditional lectures into interactive sessions between teachers and students, encouraging greater participation and enthusiasm for learning.
- Quick Learning Assessment: Results from responses appear instantly on screen, allowing teachers to immediately evaluate student understanding and adjust their teaching approach accordingly.
- Diverse Presentation Options: Mentimeter supports various question formats such as open-ended questions, multiple-choice questions, and ranking questions, enabling teachers to design activities that suit their specific course content.
- Encourages Opinion Sharing: The Mentimeter tool helps students, listeners, or participants feel more confident in expressing opinions, sharing perspectives, and engaging in open discussions.
- Creates a Friendly Learning Environment: Using Mentimeter helps create a casual and fun learning atmosphere, making students feel more relaxed and willing to express themselves.
- Data Collection for Analysis: Data gathered from Mentimeter can be downloaded for in-depth analysis of student behavior and trends, helping improve future teaching sessions.
3. Padlet: Creative Board for Modern Learning
Padlet is an online tool that functions as an electronic board where everyone can easily share their thoughts, images, videos, or various files. This has made Padlet a creative space for modern classroom engagement.
Benefits of Using Padlet in Teaching
- Creative and Flexible: Padlet offers flexibility in designing various presentation formats, including timelines, mind maps, and online exhibitions, making learning more engaging.
- Promotes Participation: Padlet enables all students to participate equally in learning through sharing opinions, information, or collaborative work.
- Stimulates Critical Thinking: Padlet helps students develop analytical thinking, synthesis, and presentation skills of their own ideas.
- Easy Accessibility: Padlet can be accessed from anywhere with internet connection, allowing students to learn anytime and anywhere.
- Encourages Collaborative Learning: Padlet helps students work together in groups to create collaborative projects.
- Information Collection: Padlet can be used as a space to collect lesson-related information, allowing students to review materials at any time.
- Learning Assessment: Teachers can use Padlet to assess student learning through participation and the quality of submitted work.
4. Vonder Go: Interactive Learning Creation Tool
Vonder Go is an online platform designed to create engaging and interactive learning experiences by incorporating technology into teaching. It makes learning more interesting and easier to understand. Many people may know Vonder Go as “Game Hong Rian Taek” (Classroom Breaking Game), and over 30,000 Thai teachers have chosen this platform, reflecting the fun and excitement it brings to classrooms when using this tool.
Benefits of Using Vonder Go! in Teaching
- Creates Fun and Engagement: Vonder Go transforms lectures into exciting games, encouraging students to participate in answering questions and helping peers succeed. Teams must meet teacher-set accuracy thresholds to win, promoting collaborative learning.
- Quick Learning Assessment: Vonder Go provides real-time learning assessment, allowing teachers to identify students’ strengths and weaknesses and adjust their teaching methods immediately.
- Diverse Activity Formats: Features include the ability to add images, audio, or video links to questions without requiring video editing. It also includes a ‘Math Keyboard’ for mathematics teachers to input formulas directly on the platform.
- Enhanced Student Understanding: After scoring each question, teachers can pause to provide additional explanations, or add explanations in the ‘Explanation Box’ beforehand for students’ initial self-understanding.
- Supportive Teaching Features: Teachers can easily integrate links and select specific segments suitable for questions directly within Vonder Go.
- Continuous Learning: Can be used for lesson review or creating pre-lesson tests to help students prepare for new content.
- Learning Reports: Generates individual and class-wide learning reports, enabling teachers to analyze learning outcomes and improve teaching methods effectively.
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