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How Using Slack Can Improve Socratic Seminars

Edsurge

Our interest in academic discourse, and by extension Socratic seminars, stems from our work as Hollyhock fellows at Stanford’s Center to Support Excellence in Teaching. The fellowship is a two-year program of professional development designed to combat the teacher retention problem, primarily in low-income schools.

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Communication: Facilitating and Assessing the 21st Century Skills in Education

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

It is filled with thoughts on Student Communication Skills including “I can” statement(s), classroom attributes, and assessment rubrics. Communication: Facilitating and Assessing the 21st Century Skills in Education. Make assessment of Communication an ongoing effort. Self assessment can be powerful).

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8 Ways in which edtech supports Vocational Education

Neo LMS

Instead of attending face-to-face seminars, they can do this at their own pace and receive reminders to complete them on time. . For example, they’ll know how to access and share resources, organize important documents in a portfolio, how to connect with like-minded peers, and even give feedback online.

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Free Digital Formative Assessment Tools… Important Thoughts Before Implementing

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

As you might know there are some amazing formative assessment tools on the web. Free Digital Formative Assessment Tools… Important Thoughts Before Implementing - Michael Gorman ( https://21centuryedtech.wordpress.com ) . Not only can the formative assessment process be engaging, it can also be owned by students.

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22 Strategies For Learning Through Conversation

TeachThought - Learn better.

Paideia Seminar. You can read more about the Paideia Seminar here. Socratic Seminar. You can read more here in What Is A Socratic Seminar? This could be used before a lesson as a kind of front-loading or after a lesson as an informal assessment or reinforcement and review. See more on that at number 11 below.).

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Communicating a Concept With Instagram

A Principal's Reflections

You will choose a theme/concept statement from the statements we generate or address in our Socratic Seminar at the end of the play. In your comment for both photos, you will quote the lines accurately and include the parenthetical documentation for the act, scene, and page number. So what do you think of this project?

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The Importance of Teaching a 360° Perspective on Columbus Day

Edsurge

For example, when learning about Jamestown and the British colony's contact with Pocahontas and her tribe, we read a primary source document from Powhatan Chief Crazy Horse, who debunks Disney's portrayal of Pocahontas and her relationship with John Smith. This book is loaded with gems (mostly primary source documents).