🔥 Are Kahoot and Blooket really 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?

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

Song Track Credit

• Tropic Fuse by French Fuse
• GO! by Neffex*All songs retrieved from the YouTube Audio Library at https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/.