by Paige Alfonzo, Edutopia
Social media now has functions that make sharing, reading, and collecting information one-click simple. Perhaps the most famous platform for real-time sharing, Twitter is a perfect tool for instant assessment. Two features are important to consider: hashtags and Twitter clients. Facebook and Google Plus allow you to create private groups. This could also be done using the social learning platform Edmodo. These platforms, unlike Twitter, allow students to write lengthier posts. For example, you can have students, in real time, write one-minute papers in the “comment” section of the prompt. Each of these platforms also has free polling tools. With such features, there are few formative assessment strategies that cannot be handled more efficiently using social media. One caveat: check with your institution’s social media policy before using these tools.
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