Mag. Tina Osterman, Osnovna šola Ivana Groharja, Škofja Loka
Todays young people use modern technology on a daily basis, especially mobile phones that are not by a long shot meant only for calling other people, but for other activities too, because the phones enable that. Therefore, I think it is important that these skills can also be used in the classroom. The main aims of this kind of teaching are co-creation tasks, critical thinking, data analysis, and all in all healthy competition during the actual verification of the achieved knowledge. The learning process procedure: A teacher frontally present acid-base indicators (phenolphthalein, methylorange , litmus dye and red cabbage pigment). The teacher demonstrates the indicators’ colour change in various media (acidic, basic and neutral) and measures the pH. Students are divided into groups. Each group gets a tray with one investigative solution and one indicator. Students determine whether the investigative material is acidic, alkaline or neutral by using indicators, and their findings are confirmed with pH strips. Their findings are presented to other students. Then each group makes up five multiple choice questions (each question should have four possible answers of which only one is correct). The teacher enters the questions into a computer program Kahoot !. Students register the program with their mobile phones or plates and answer questions and in that way revise and refresh their knowledge. Students love to help create the learning process, they are very creative in making up questions, as well as they learn the subject matter without any resistance, because this kind of work is actually not considered to be learning. The advantages of using software tools Kahoot! are mainly in the verification of the acquired knowledge, revision of the material and refreshing the topic. It is a little less useful in getting to know new learning topic. Because pupils classify not only on the basis of correctness of the answer, but also on the basis of their speed, this activity represents even bigger motivation.
