{"id":47365,"date":"2014-09-04T10:17:50","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T14:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=47365"},"modified":"2014-09-04T10:19:30","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T14:19:30","slug":"dipsticks-53-efficient-ways-to-check-for-understanding-finley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2014\/09\/04\/dipsticks-53-efficient-ways-to-check-for-understanding-finley\/","title":{"rendered":"Dipsticks: [53] Efficient ways to check for understanding [Finley]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edutopia.org\/blog\/dipsticks-to-check-for-understanding-todd-finley\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Dipsticks: Efficient ways to check for understanding<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from edutopia.org by Todd Finley<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpts\/some ideas:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Talk Show Panel<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Have a cast of experts debate the finer points of _______.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Classroom TED Talk<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Podcast<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Play the part of a content expert and discuss content-related issues on a podcast, using the free Easypodcast.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Illustration<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Draw a picture that illustrates a relationship between terms in the text. Explain in one paragraph your visual representation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Summary Poem Activity<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>List ten key words from an assigned text.<\/li>\n<li>Do a free verse poem with the words you highlighted.<\/li>\n<li>Write a summary of the reading based on these words.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Invent the Quiz<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Write ten higher-order text questions related to the content. Pick two and answer one of them in half a page.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Mind Map<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Create a mind map that represents a concept using a diagram-making tool (like Gliffy). Provide your teacher\/classmates with the link to your mind map.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Exit Slip<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Have students reflect on lessons learned during class.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>From DSC:<\/em><br \/>\nWith thanks to Krista Spahr, Senior\u00a0 Instructional Designer<br \/>\nat Calvin College, for posting this item on Twitter<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dipsticks: Efficient ways to check for understanding &#8212; from edutopia.org by Todd Finley Excerpts\/some ideas: Talk Show Panel Have a cast of experts debate the finer points of _______. Classroom TED Talk Podcast Play the part of a content expert and discuss content-related issues on a podcast, using the free Easypodcast. Illustration Draw a picture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,419,119,46,173,66,89,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assessment","category-ideas-teaching","category-instructional-design","category-k-12-related","category-pedagogy","category-student-related","category-teachers","category-teaching-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47365"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47372,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47365\/revisions\/47372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}