formative assessment Archives - Ditch That Textbook https://ditchthattextbook.com/tag/formative-assessment/ Ed tech, creative teaching, less reliance on the textbook. Tue, 27 Jun 2023 12:34:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.2 Draw, choose, write or say: Fantastic formative assessments https://ditchthattextbook.com/draw-choose-write-or-say-fantastic-formative-assessments/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=draw-choose-write-or-say-fantastic-formative-assessments https://ditchthattextbook.com/draw-choose-write-or-say-fantastic-formative-assessments/#comments Thu, 31 Mar 2022 10:45:00 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=3577 Formative assessment can be fantastic! Here are options for letting students draw, choose, write and say as a formative assessment tool.Formative assessment can be drudgery. When students are doing the same quizzes and the same practice questions all day long, it can be less than stimulating.Or formative assessment can be fantastic.Teachers use formative assessments to […]

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]]> https://ditchthattextbook.com/draw-choose-write-or-say-fantastic-formative-assessments/feed/ 10 Sticky learning: Digital brain dumps with Flipgrid and Socrative https://ditchthattextbook.com/sticky-learning-digital-brain-dumps-with-flipgrid-and-socrative/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sticky-learning-digital-brain-dumps-with-flipgrid-and-socrative https://ditchthattextbook.com/sticky-learning-digital-brain-dumps-with-flipgrid-and-socrative/#comments Wed, 09 Mar 2022 13:49:00 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=6629 Help new information stick in students' minds with the "brain dump," an effective, low-prep activity in the classroom. It’s a common request from teachers of students: Study. Go home and study. Go back over the material. Re-read the material. When we ask students to do this, we mean well. We want them to succeed. But we’re asking […]

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]]> https://ditchthattextbook.com/sticky-learning-digital-brain-dumps-with-flipgrid-and-socrative/feed/ 2 Game show classroom: Comparing Kahoot!, Quizizz, Quizlet Live and Gimkit https://ditchthattextbook.com/game-show-classroom-comparing-kahoot-quizizz-quizlet-live-and-quizalize/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=game-show-classroom-comparing-kahoot-quizizz-quizlet-live-and-quizalize https://ditchthattextbook.com/game-show-classroom-comparing-kahoot-quizizz-quizlet-live-and-quizalize/#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2020 13:57:34 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=4229 The best features of game shows can be used to review and teach in the classroom. Kahoot!, Quizizz, Quizlet Live, and Gimkit can help. See their pros, cons and what makes them different.As a child, I remember one specific thing I always looked forward to on days when I stayed home sick from school — […]

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]]> https://ditchthattextbook.com/game-show-classroom-comparing-kahoot-quizizz-quizlet-live-and-quizalize/feed/ 153 Time savers for teachers: A more efficient you! https://ditchthattextbook.com/time-savers-for-teachers-a-more-efficient-you/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=time-savers-for-teachers-a-more-efficient-you https://ditchthattextbook.com/time-savers-for-teachers-a-more-efficient-you/#respond Fri, 17 Jan 2020 10:23:44 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=6396 Time is always a factor for teachers. Looking for some time-management, productivity ideas to get more done? Look no further.It's something we're always looking for as teachers. Something always holding us back. Time.  We never seem to have enough of it. If we had more of it, we could get more done and do more for our […]

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]]> https://ditchthattextbook.com/time-savers-for-teachers-a-more-efficient-you/feed/ 0 Using Kahoot! and others the way your brain craves https://ditchthattextbook.com/using-kahoot-and-others-the-way-your-brain-craves/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=using-kahoot-and-others-the-way-your-brain-craves https://ditchthattextbook.com/using-kahoot-and-others-the-way-your-brain-craves/#respond Wed, 13 Dec 2017 14:27:23 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=6177 We use tech tools like Kahoot! in the classroom all the time. When we pair them with brain science strategies, they can be even more powerful. (Sketch by Matt Miller)Sure, you might think. I use Kahoot! and G Suite and others in the classroom all the time. They're great. But are you using them the way […]

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]]> https://ditchthattextbook.com/using-kahoot-and-others-the-way-your-brain-craves/feed/ 0 Teach with Kahoot!: Go beyond review with the Blind Kahoot https://ditchthattextbook.com/teach-with-kahoot-go-beyond-review-with-the-blind-kahoot/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=teach-with-kahoot-go-beyond-review-with-the-blind-kahoot https://ditchthattextbook.com/teach-with-kahoot-go-beyond-review-with-the-blind-kahoot/#comments Mon, 17 Apr 2017 14:44:02 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=5382 Teachers all over the world use Kahoot! for formative assessment and to review content with students. And why wouldn’t they? Kahoot! (getkahoot.com) is a fun gameshow-style assessment activity. There are tons of creative ways to review and assess with it. Kahoot! lets students answer questions with their own device. It has music and a leaderboard, […]

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]]> https://ditchthattextbook.com/teach-with-kahoot-go-beyond-review-with-the-blind-kahoot/feed/ 8 10 strategies for lightning-quick feedback students can REALLY use https://ditchthattextbook.com/10-strategies-for-lightning-quick-feedback-students-can-really-use/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=10-strategies-for-lightning-quick-feedback-students-can-really-use https://ditchthattextbook.com/10-strategies-for-lightning-quick-feedback-students-can-really-use/#comments Thu, 23 Feb 2017 14:52:35 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=5224 Using homework assignments to give feedback is pokey. Inefficient. Slow. Think about the length of the feedback loop for traditional homework assignments: Teacher assigns homework to students. Students take it home (maybe) and work on it (maybe). Students turn it in the next day. Teacher grades and provides comments that night (if not completely swamped […]

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]]> https://ditchthattextbook.com/10-strategies-for-lightning-quick-feedback-students-can-really-use/feed/ 10 10 keys to success in blended learning https://ditchthattextbook.com/10-keys-to-success-in-blended-learning/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=10-keys-to-success-in-blended-learning https://ditchthattextbook.com/10-keys-to-success-in-blended-learning/#comments Mon, 28 Dec 2015 14:40:17 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=3735 [guestpost]Today’s post is by Julie Daniel Davis, an instructional technologist from Chattanooga, Tenn. She presented recently on blended learning in the math classroom at the Tennessee Education Technology Convention to a packed room. This is a summary of that presentation.[/guestpost] In our eighth-grade math prototype and our elementary math programs, I’ve watched teachers as they adapt […]

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