New Feature in Quizlet (quizlet.live)

For anyone not familiar with Quizlet, it is a free website providing learning tools for students, including flashcards, study and game modes.  It was created by a high school sophomore in 2005 and currently has over 40 million study sets.  If you haven't used Quizlet before, you may want to check it out.  Our Junior School teachers are using it extensively in their classrooms.   The purpose of this post however was not to introduce Quizlet, but more to introduce a new feature Quizlet recently launched that may get more of you trying this application...this new feature is Quizlet.live

This new "Live" feature allows you to gamify any Quizlet review study set.  Here is how it works: Students enter a game pin and their name on quizlet.live.  Once students have joined a game, they are randomly assigned to an animal-themed team of 3 or 4 students (teachers are able to reshuffle the teams if they'd like).  Once your students organize themselves around the room near their teammates (for easier communication), the game can begin. 

Teammates work together to match correct answers faster than the other teams. For each game, twelve possible answers are spread across each teammate’s screen. Everyone on the team gets the same question but only one student has the answer. And so, they need to communicate with each other to find the correct answers in the least amount of time.

WOW!! Sounds like a fun way to run a review in class and promote mastery learning.  Not only are students working together to learn the hard content, but they are also learning skills such as communication and collaboration!!  I would be intrigued to hear feedback from anyone who tries using Quizlet.live in their class.

Quizlet website: https://quizlet.com/latest

Learn more about Quizlet live: https://quizlet.com/features/live

To join a session visit: https://quizlet.live (students do not need to have an account to play)