Behind every meaningful education tool is a belief about how learning truly happens. For Kung Fu Quiz, that belief is deeply rooted in learning science and technology-enhanced pedagogy, guided by the principle that learning improves when students are actively engaged and receive timely feedback.

For instance, we know that in order for students to learn something, there must first be something for them to learn. Towards that end, while YouTube is not an "educational website" in the traditional institutional sense, it is widely considered the largest and most accessible platform for informal education and self-directed learning, and serves as an immense source of knowledge for diverse topics ranging from basic phonics for children to advanced university-level lectures. Hence, regardless of the subject or grade you teach, there's always something valuable in YouTube.

Now that we've got the content for students to learn, how do we know that they actually watch the lesson? And more importantly, how do we know whether they actually understood what they watched? These fundamental questions shaped how we designed Kung Fu Quiz to assist teachers bring significant improvements in students' learning, and these principles continue to influence how learning environments evolve in the digital age.

As EdTech tools become more common in classrooms, it's important to differentiate whether these tools are just an addition to the teaching resource or actually creating significant improvement in students' learning and understanding.

The Classroom Gap that led to building Kung Fu Quiz

As YouTube Video lessons became increasingly common, a gap emerged. Teachers use YouTube videos more than ever, be it to explain concepts, introduce topics, or reinforce understanding. But there is a gap in assessing the following:

From a learning science perspective, this lack of real-time insights can be difficult for teachers to intervene early, support their understanding, and adjust the teaching instructions at the right time.

This is the exact gap addressed by Kung Fu Quiz.

The idea is simple. By allowing teachers to embed questions directly into YouTube videos, Kung Fu Quiz turns passive watching into active thinking moments for students, as well as providing teachers with insights into students' prior knowledge.

And hence, Kung Fu Quiz was designed with a pedagogy-first, not a features-first approach. We focus on:

All these align closely with the principles behind effective learning. The goal has never been to add more work for teachers, but to give them clear insights about student learning without increasing their workload.

Today, seeing teachers across different countries use Kung Fu Quiz has been deeply encouraging. What matters most is how it improves the classroom experiences by helping teachers engage quieter students, identify misconceptions earlier, and make learning more engaging. And not just that, teachers also get to quickly and easily unlock the tremendous educational value of YouTube videos.

As Kung Fu Quiz grows, our vision is for teachers to be able to even more quickly create, share, and use Kung Fu Quizzes created by the community – by teachers for teachers. We are now working to incorporate additional advanced pedagogy into Kung Fu Quiz, such that teachers’ ability to effect educational change and improvements in classrooms are mightily enhanced. A current idea that we have is this – given a particular grade/topic, what are common misconceptions that students have for that domain? And so what are some lessons available from YouTube, along with relevant questions, that we can use to probe students’ prior knowledge and, thus, effect conceptual change? Notice that we talk nothing about technology because we believe that the education dog should wag the technology tail.

If you have any comments or suggestions, do send them to us. Until next time, thank you for sharing 2025 with us, and have a great 2026 ahead!