This presentation was delivered as part of TeachMeet Leicester: Digital Literacy #TMDL14, held at Crown Hills Community College on 18th March 2014. For our round of the event, see: http://lccdigilit.our.dmu.ac.uk/2014/03/20/tmdl14

1. Using Hinge Questions and the Quick Key
app to improve student learning
Simon Renshaw
Soar Valley College
@simonrenshaw
renshawgeography@gmail.com

3. Picture of a pile of my marking!
Marking... Nobody ever develops an app for
that!

4. Quick Key

5. Geographical
Understanding
Formative
assessment
Student
Learning
Technology

8. It is the
moment where
you move from
one key idea/
activity/ point
on to another.
Understanding
the content
before the
hinge is a
prerequisite
for the next
phase of
learning.

10. The main reason air temperature
varies across the globe is because...
A - The Earth orbits the sun
B - The Earth orbits the sun at an angle
C - The Earth is a sphere
D - The Earth has a hot core

12. You are most likely to find scree slopes
forming in mountain environments
where...
A - The altitude is high
B - The gradient is steep
C - The temperature is very cold
D - The temperature fluctuates around 0⁰C
E - The rainfall is low

14. Quick Key

16. Quick Key

23. Design high
quality
assessment
questions
Deploy range
of hinge
questions to
assess student
understanding
Use
technology to
analyse results
More
immediate
adjustment to
instruction
Improvement
to student
understanding

28. “If we spend time generating
high quality questions we can
potentially administer, assess
and take remedial action
regarding a whole class in a
matter of minutes, without
generating a pile of marking.”

29. Using Hinge Questions and the Quick Key
app to improve student learning
Simon Renshaw
Soar Valley College
@simonrenshaw
renshawgeography@gmail.com