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A Socratic Seminar for Elementary Learners

User Generated Education

In line with the theme of this blog, student-centric and user generated educational techniques. Socratic seminars have been around, obviously, since the days of Socratics. In the Socratic seminar, the teacher uses questions to guide discussion around specific learning goals. Sneetches: A Socratic Seminar.

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Tech Tip #90: Don’t Be Afraid of Mulligans

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The question I usually get when I mention this to teachers at training seminars is, how do you have time? In fact, their confidence is so improved, they often are the kids who come in during lunch to offer assistance to other struggling students. Truth: Not that many kids take advantage of my offer. That’s OK.

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Engineers Week Feb. 18-24

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During Engineers Week, engineering societies, universities, companies, and other organizations organize workshops, competitions, seminars, outreach programs to schools, career fairs, and networking events. Look for her next prehistoric fiction, Endangered Species, Winter 2024

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Follow Along With a Grad Seminar About Edtech: Part 1, Picking the Best Tech

Edsurge

This semester I’m teaching a graduate seminar on education and technology for Georgetown University. Over the next two months, I’ll share the experience and highlights in a series of columns for EdSurge with highlights from the course. In addition, we’ll use some of those tools to make the class happen.

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22 Classroom-Focused Resources on AI from Teachers Everywhere

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Educators are the best! I'm collecting blogs of teachers who are in the classroom actually use AI and have practical, real examples to share. You can leave a comment on this blog. The human intelligence part is so important!) Enough of the junk.

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Balance the Delivery

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For those teachers who used Socratic Seminars, this is a great opportunity. Christian Miraglia is a recently retired 36-year educator and now Educational Technology Consultant at t4edtech where he also blogs at Edtech and Things Related. With these screen breaks, there has to be an alternative platform for students.

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4 Ways to make sure the teachers in your school are properly trained

Neo LMS

You can’t just throw it various seminars and educational summits without an afterthought. This will be hard to do if they are already overworked (as all teachers usually are) — if you pile more work (in the form of seminars) on them they might be reluctant to participate in any training session.

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