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How to Hold Effective Classroom Discussions

Waterford

Use this resource from Facing History and Ourselves to learn about socratic seminars in greater depth. This Edutopia article by educator Richard Curwin is a great resource for learning more about lightning rounds. Socratic Seminar. Preventing School Failure: Alternative Education for Children and Youth, 2003, 47, pp.

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How to Make Classes More Active, and Why It Matters

Edsurge

Davidson has spent her career encouraging innovation in education. A classic example: Back in 2003 she led a groundbreaking experiment at Duke University to use iPods in education. And the reason that is is because sociologists of education have figured out who speaks most in a class. Active learning wins.

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Why Do Some Schools Get Better Quickly and Others Get Stuck?

Edsurge

We had this intranet server service called FirstClass that kind of did in 2003 just about everything that Google for Education does now. One of those spaces is in a college of education classroom or a seminar room where you can kind of talk about teaching. Teachers sort of have two spaces that they learn.

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Preparing Young Students for Home Row Keyboarding: An Unplugged Approach

Ask a Tech Teacher

Then I ran into Dr. William Morgan on one of the education forums I frequent and was thrilled that he knows a lot about them and was willing to share his expertise to kick-off a mini-seminar in classroom keyboarding. National Association for the Education of Young Children , International Society for Technology in Education ).

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What Does Innovation Mean in Higher Education?

Edsurge

These questions grounded discussions at last weekend’s annual Education Writers Association. higher education seminar. While many panels and organizations made their cases on EWA’s stage, two schools showcased radically different approaches to higher education innovation. In the case of ASU. For 2016, U.S.

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6 tips for making educational travel attainable for all students

eSchool News

Educational travel can be made attainable for all students if you create a plan and stick with it. The experts shared tips on planning for educational travel to make it accessible for all students. ” They also created an information packet to review at the very first meeting, explaining all the details of educational travel.

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The Secret of Team Allocation in a Flipped-Classroom Environment

Fractus Learning

In addition, feedback from accounting graduate employers state that students need experience working within a diverse team, as they do so in practice (Howieson, 2003). The course design is a two hour weekly flipped-classroom, blended learning environment with 42 students per seminar. Team Allocation and Coursework Design.