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Rethinking Kahoot and Blooket - with MARCIE SAMAYOA

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🔥 Are Kahoot and Blooket the best ways for students to review content?

🔥 How can we build fluency, literacy, and thinking skills in the science classroom?

🔥 What’s the role of pencils and paper in the classroom of 2025?

Welcome back to another episode of the Teachers on Fire Podcast, airing live on YouTube most Saturday mornings at 8am Pacific, 11am Eastern. My name is Tim Cavey, and my mission here is to warm your heart, spark your thinking, and ignite your professional practice.

Today’s Teacher on Fire is Marcie Samayoa. Marcie is a high school chemistry teacher from Los Angeles, California with ten years of experience in the classroom. Through her blog, Scientists in the Making, she shares evidence-based teaching strategies that connect cognitive science to instructional practices.

Connect with Marcie

on LinkedIn,

on X @SciInTheMaking

on Instagram @scientistsinthemaking, and

on her website at ⁠⁠www.scientistsinthemaking.com⁠⁠.

In This Conversation

⁠⁠0:00:00⁠⁠ - Marcie Samayoa is a high school chemistry teacher based in Los Angeles, CA

⁠⁠1:43⁠⁠ - Doesn't Kahoot increase student engagement?

⁠⁠4:16⁠⁠ - Review Step 1: a low-stakes practice test on paper with topics labeled

⁠⁠5:48⁠⁠ - Review Step 2: turn to neighbours, compare answers, consult notes, discuss differences

⁠⁠8:47⁠⁠ - Review Step 3: students note the topics that they struggled with

⁠⁠8:54⁠⁠ - Review Step 4: students review weaker topics using retrieval

⁠⁠10:10⁠⁠ - Review Step 5: 2nd practice test, this time in Google Forms without topics

⁠⁠12:23⁠⁠ - Review Step 6: students take the test again as homework to build fluency

⁠⁠16:55⁠⁠ - The current pushback from educators against overuse of edtech and AI in the classroom

⁠⁠21:11⁠⁠ - Marcie's critique of Building Thinking Classrooms

⁠⁠27:22⁠⁠ - How and where to connect with Marcie

Visit the home of Teachers on Fire at ⁠⁠https://teachersonfire.net/⁠⁠.

Song Track Credit

Opening Song: Tropic Fuse by French Fuse - retrieved from the YouTube Audio Library at⁠⁠ https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/⁠⁠.

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🔥 Are Kahoot and Blooket the best ways for students to review content?

🔥 How can we build fluency, literacy, and thinking skills in the science classroom?

🔥 What’s the role of pencils and paper in the classroom of 2025?

Welcome back to another episode of the Teachers on Fire Podcast, airing live on YouTube most Saturday mornings at 8am Pacific, 11am Eastern. My name is Tim Cavey, and my mission here is to warm your heart, spark your thinking, and ignite your professional practice.

Today’s Teacher on Fire is Marcie Samayoa. Marcie is a high school chemistry teacher from Los Angeles, California with ten years of experience in the classroom. Through her blog, Scientists in the Making, she shares evidence-based teaching strategies that connect cognitive science to instructional practices.

Connect with Marcie

on LinkedIn,

on X @SciInTheMaking

on Instagram @scientistsinthemaking, and

on her website at ⁠⁠www.scientistsinthemaking.com⁠⁠.

In This Conversation

⁠⁠0:00:00⁠⁠ - Marcie Samayoa is a high school chemistry teacher based in Los Angeles, CA

⁠⁠1:43⁠⁠ - Doesn't Kahoot increase student engagement?

⁠⁠4:16⁠⁠ - Review Step 1: a low-stakes practice test on paper with topics labeled

⁠⁠5:48⁠⁠ - Review Step 2: turn to neighbours, compare answers, consult notes, discuss differences

⁠⁠8:47⁠⁠ - Review Step 3: students note the topics that they struggled with

⁠⁠8:54⁠⁠ - Review Step 4: students review weaker topics using retrieval

⁠⁠10:10⁠⁠ - Review Step 5: 2nd practice test, this time in Google Forms without topics

⁠⁠12:23⁠⁠ - Review Step 6: students take the test again as homework to build fluency

⁠⁠16:55⁠⁠ - The current pushback from educators against overuse of edtech and AI in the classroom

⁠⁠21:11⁠⁠ - Marcie's critique of Building Thinking Classrooms

⁠⁠27:22⁠⁠ - How and where to connect with Marcie

Visit the home of Teachers on Fire at ⁠⁠https://teachersonfire.net/⁠⁠.

Song Track Credit

Opening Song: Tropic Fuse by French Fuse - retrieved from the YouTube Audio Library at⁠⁠ https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/⁠⁠.

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