# @edutopia on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CGK1KuIlqqY
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/20304260-edutopia-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2020-10-10T16:10:51.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Edutopia (@edutopia) — https://gondola.cc/edutopia

## Caption

In the virtual classroom, digital tools like online polls, chat boxes, and discussion boards have become  the new formative assessments. ⁣
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Here are seven smart ways to check for understanding during remote learning:⁣
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1. Dipsticks: Quick remote check-ins, or dipsticks, give teachers a sense of how students are doing academically and emotionally. At the start of a live class, ask a general question about a prior lesson and ask kids to respond with a thumbs-up/thumbs-down in the chat box, or by holding up a sticky note to the screen. ⁣
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2. Digital journals: As an after-class exercise, ask students to reflect on what they know, what they want to know, and what they learned in an online document. Alternatively, task them with creating interactive one-pagers or study guides about a lesson using Canva or Google Docs.⁣
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3. Elevator pitches: Ask students to briefly synthesize a lesson’s important takeaways in a chat box or virtual message board like Padlet. Or, ask student volunteers to summarize what they learned in an under-60-seconds elevator pitch, or write it into a brief tweet or Instagram post.⁣
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4. Square, Triangle, Circle: To build in choice, ask kids to pick a shape and then answer the associated prompt about what they’ve learned in class. A square means something’s squared away in their thinking; a triangle requires extracting three important ideas; and a circle means ideas are still circulating in their minds. ⁣
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5. Art: Offer students creative options to show their understanding. For example, they might draw a comic about a historic event or scientific principle; write a poem or song; or act out a chapter from a book or scene from a play. ⁣
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6. Peer-to-peer evaluations: To foster relationships between classmates—and check for understanding—pair students up and have them review each other’s work in breakout rooms using a rubric. ⁣
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7. Virtual exit tickets: Ask students to respond to open-ended questions like: “Today was hard because…,” or “What do you understand well?” on a running Google Doc.⁣
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Link in bio.⁣
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