Most posts in this Should I Use Tech for This? summer series land on one side or the other. Paper wins for note-taking. The Socratic seminar stays analog (although prep for it is more fluid). But formative assessment strategies? This one genuinely goes both ways. The right exit ticket ideas for teachers depend entirely on what you want to learn about your students and what you plan to do with that information. In this post, we’re breaking down the best uses of digital vs. paper assessment for checking for understanding, including a ten-year-old Google Forms trick that still works beautifully in my classroom today.