Listening to My Students at Scale: Exit Tickets, NotebookLM, and the Tightest Feedback Loop I've Ever Built

It started at a teaching workshop, last semester: Craig Kapp and Rob Egan presented a seminar at the NYU Center for Teaching and Learning called "Real-Time Insights: Leveraging AI for Responsive Teaching in Large Classrooms." They (re-)introduced a deceptively simple concept: the exit ticket . The idea is that at the end of every class session, you ask students three quick questions, each with a…