Digital exit checks
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This document discusses using digital tools to check student learning at the end of a lesson. Traditionally, exit strategies involved students writing in notebooks or answering teacher questions, but technology allows for new options. Digital exit strategies can motivate students with novelty, allow anonymity, and create a permanent record of learning. The document provides examples of digital tools for images, avatars, backchannels, posterboards, videos, quizzes, and surveys. It emphasizes keeping digital exit strategies short, focused, and accessible via students' own devices in order to effectively check student understanding at the end of a lesson.
Digital exit checks
- 1. While you are waiting…. How do you check students’ learning at the end of the lesson? What techniques have you found to be useful? Please add your ideas to the chat box on the left.
- 2. Digital Exit Strategies: Using Technology to Check Student Learning By David Read Technology Coordinator, English Language Teaching Centre, The University of Sheffield
- 3. What do I mean by Exit Strategy? A short check at the end of the lesson identifying what the students have learnt. Traditionally, done through… Writing in their notebooks Getting the students to explain What they’ve learnt posters quizzes Asking the students Check questions
- 4. Why do we want to do this? ……… …………. …………. …………… ……….. ………………..
- 5. Why do we want to do this? Student progress and achievement Matches student to teacher goals Needs analysis More writing/speaking practice Rounds off the lesson neatly Develops student autonomy
- 6. And why digitally? ………. ……….. ………. ………… ……….
- 7. And why digitally? Novelty and motivation Possibility of anonymity Allows quieter students to shine Permanent record Encourages creativity from students
- 9. Avatars.. (Tellegami) Alternatives: Voki, Blabberize
- 10. Backchannels (Today’s Meet) Alternatives: Twitter, Edmodo, blogs
- 11. Posterboards (Padlet) Alternatives: linoit, Glogster
- 12. Short Videos (YouTube) Alternatives: Vine, Instagram, mobile phones
- 13. Response quizzes (Socrative) Alternatives: Polleverywhere, Strawpoll, Edmodo
- 14. Surveys (Google Forms) Alternatives: Survey Monkey
- 15. Considerations: Methodological and Technical Encourage pair and group work where possible/relevant Keep it relatively short (5 minutes or so) Avoid abstract questions (‘What have you learnt?’) Use results to inform future classes Use the devices the students already have with them Avoid sites with lengthy sign-up procedures Make sure the tools can be easily adapted for different levels
- 16. Thank you for your attention… Any Questions? Any ideas for how you check student learning?