I’ve been teaching high school since 2012. In that time, I’ve watched Kahoot rise and fall, Quizlet Live come and go, Nearpod get expensive, Pear Deck become mandatory, then forgotten,…
I taught fully online for two straight years during the pandemic and another year of hybrid after that. I’ve run Gimkit games with kids in three different time zones, with…
I used to think I was pretty good at Gimkit. I had my kits, I had my routines, and kids loved the games. Then one random Tuesday, I accidentally clicked…
I’ve had students log into Gimkit with their school Google accounts, with personal emails, with their mom’s email, with the classic “I forgot my password” panic at 8:12 a.m. when…
The first time I tried to run a live Gimkit game, I spent twenty-three minutes troubleshooting why half my students couldn’t join, accidentally started the game before anyone was ready,…
I’ve run somewhere around 1,400 Gimkit sessions since 2019. Some of them were legendary. Some of them crashed so hard that kids still bring them up to embarrass me at…
I teach English to high schoolers who would rather set themselves on fire than discuss symbolism. For years, vocabulary quizzes were twenty minutes of quiet misery followed by my grading…
I teach high school math, and for years, “review day” was code for “everyone stares at their phone while I beg them to try the practice problems I spent two…
I’ve blown up so many Gimkit sessions that I should have a frequent-failure card at this point. Some activities sounded brilliant at 10 p.m. on a Thursday and then detonated…
For years, I was the teacher who played Gimkit every Friday, watched the leaderboard explode, and then closed my laptop feeling like a rockstar, only to realize on Monday that…
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