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Assessing Students with Twitter-Style Exit Slips

Lesson Objective: Use a Twitter-style exit slip to quickly assess learning
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Thought starters

  1. What are the benefits of using an exit slip that is in the style of Twitter?
  2. What might you assess with this style of exit slip?
  3. With older students, how could you adapt this strategy for use on actual Twitter?

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  • Private message to LaBresha Small

LaBresha Small Mar 15, 2024 4:48pm

  1. The benefits of using an exit slip that is in the style of Twitter is it engages students, peaks students’ interests, provides variety, challenges them to think about what they’ve learned.
  2. I might assess an activity student have recently chosen using this style of exit slip as an introduction to using it. May require them to tell me why they chose what they chose.
  3. With older students I could adapt this strategy for use on actual Twitter by posting a question and having them practice their social skills by replying in a certain time frame with a certain amount of characters. I would require them reply to my tweet as instructed and respond to two other peers’ comments.
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  • Private message to Joann Miller

Joann Miller Mar 12, 2024 11:15am

I love how students where able to pick what they wanted. to write about.  It was a quick and consise way for students to get a exit slip.

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  • Private message to Paul Walker

Paul Walker Feb 9, 2020 5:06am

great idea... 

it uses text

of limited length.

allows choice of topic &

gives practice in expression as it 

gives feedback to the teacher!

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  • Private message to Joseph Rosenfeld

Joseph Rosenfeld Oct 26, 2019 12:58pm

Great idea. Remember tweets are 280 characters now!

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  • Assessing Students with Twitter-Style Exit Slips Transcript

    Speaker 1: "Are you ready for this?"

    Class: "Yes."

    Speaker 1: "Okay." One way to quickly

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    Assessing Students with Twitter-Style Exit Slips Transcript

    Speaker 1: "Are you ready for this?"

    Class: "Yes."

    Speaker 1: "Okay." One way to quickly assess your students when they leave their class is to give them a Twitter-style exit slip. "Now remember, this is a tweet." It's so sophisticated. Kids are like, "Ooh, Twitter." "Take your tweet, and start writing on that." Before my students leave the class, I have them choose one of three questions that they must answer in one hundred and forty characters or less. "What are the characters?"

    Class: "Letters, spaces, and punctuation."

    Speaker 1: "Okay." It provides variety for one, and it also gives them the challenge of thinking about what they learn.

    Speaker 3: "People write blogs to show emotions and feelings against a claim or an argument, like against somebody, like a debate in writing class." That would have been a Twitter.

    Speaker 4: "Yeah, because I feel like people, since it's a blog, people would share their opinions ..."

    Speaker 1: They have to think quickly, and they have to be concise in their answer.

    Class: "Have a nice day, [inaudible 00:01:27]."

    Speaker 1: "You, too." I don't have to pick out of a whole paragraph what they have learned. "Ooh, you did it. Okay."

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