Activators and Summarizers

The US Digital Literacy site provides my favorite definitions of activators and summarizers. They define activators as "techniques to activate students’ prior knowledge through the use of engaging strategies designed to focus learning" and summarizers as "activities to promote the retention of knowledge through the use of engaging strategies designed to rehearse and practice skills for the purpose of moving knowledge into long-term memory".  Whether you call these strategies dip-sticking, activation of prior knowledge, or checking for understanding, these formative assessment structures serve an important role in teaching and learning.
BOOKS ON THE TOPIC
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IDEAS AND SAMPLES
  1. Twenty simple assessment strategies
  2. Activator strategies for the classroom
  3. Summarizer strategies for the classroom
  4. Learning activators
  5. Icebreakers that rock
  6. ​​Improv Encyclopedia
  7. Activators and summarizers​
  8. ​Activators and summarizers 2
  9. Activating strategies
  10. Summarizing strategies
  11. Discovery Education's SOS
  12. Pump students up with digital icebreakers
  13. Dipsticks: Check for understanding
  14. Classroom icebreakers for students
  15. 15 quick & creative ways to group students
  16. 53 ways to check for understanding
  17. Checking for understanding
  18. Ten creative pre-assessment ideas​​
  19. 22 closure (summarizer) activities
  20. ​18 ideas for warm-ups and exit tickets​
  21. ​Critical thinking workbook from GDC below
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APPS AND APPLICATIONS FOR THE STRUCTURES
  1. Spinner apps: (iOS | Android | Online)
  2. Draw: Explain Everything  (iOS | Android | Chrome | Windows)
  3. Explain: Adobe Spark Video (iOS | Web 2.0)
  4. Point Out: SyncPad (iOS | Android & Web 2.0)
  5. Polling: Kahoot (Web 2.0)
  6. Question: iRig Recorder (iOS | Android)
  7. Question: Vocaroo (Web 2.0)
  8. Teach Someone: Explain Everything (iOS | Android | Chrome | Windows) 
  9. Mind map: Mapping tools
  10. Mind map: Sketchnoting tools (Video)
  11. Interview: Twister Wave (Web 2.0)
  12. ​Interview: Wave Pad (iOS | Android)
  13. Interview: Audioboom (iOS | Android)
  14. Interview: Andchor.fm (Web 2.0)
  15. Categorize: Padlet (Web 2.0 | iOS | Android)
  16. Keywords: Cacoo (Web 2.0)
  17. Keywords: Coggle (Web 2.0 | Chrome)
  18. Keywords: Maptini (iOS)
  19. Summarizer:  Creating tools (App smashing)
  20. 3-2-1 Summarizer: Wufoo (Web 2.0)
  21. Tabletop Texting Summarizer: iFakeText (Web 2.0)
  22. Make it Concrete Summarizer: Drawing Pad (iOS | Android)
  23. Silent Sharing Summarizer: AWW App (All devices)
  24. ​Advertisement Summarizer: Canva (iOS)
PRESENTATION LINKS AND INFORMATION
  1. Definition​
  2. Martin: Overview presentation
  3. Scholastic classroom set-up tool
  4. 4Teachers classroom architect
  5. Roomle classroom set-up app
  6. Collaboration rubric
  7. Personality quiz icebreaker
  8. Video recording in the classroom
  9. Ferriter and technology
  10. Paper animation
  11. Animation with Explain Everything sample
  12. App smashing blog post
  13. ReadWriteThink advertising lesson plan
  14. ​Ad*Access advertisement collection
  15. Mia MacMeekin: prior knowledge​
  16. Mia MacMeekin: scaffolding sample
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Created: 06/12/2014
Updated: 09/27/2021
Kathy Schrock
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