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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

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This semester I’m teaching a graduate seminar on education and technology for Georgetown University. After all, plenty of analog technologies have changed learning, including the chalkboard and the printed book.

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We Can’t Keep ChatGPT Out of the Classroom, so Let’s Address the ‘Why’ Behind Our Fears

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I prepared a few Socratic Seminars about their impressions of AI and its potential implications for the future of writing and education. Look,” a student pointed out in one seminar. “It As we moved through these seminars, my students helped me realize I was focusing on the wrong tensions in the debate around ChatGPT.

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Book Uses Neuroscience to Reduce Conflict

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Her new book, Making Peace with Conflict: Using Neuroscience to Ease Difficult Relationships , is a scientifically comprehensive guide and is the first book that explicitly ties recent revolutionary trauma research to the way we deal with conflict. “We Learn ways to calm those responses and help others calm theirs. About the Author.

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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. To learn more about this technique, we recommend the book Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students by Zaretta Hammond. Algozzine, B.,

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Leadership for social justice: Class update 1

Dangerously Irrelevant

Thought I’d post a quick update on how my new summer Master’s seminar, Leadership for Social Justice , is going. We spent the second half of class deconstructing a couple of race-based educational cases from Gorski’s book, Case Studies on Diversity and Social Justice Education. I’ve got six students in the class.

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How We Can Honor Indigenous Values in Our Teaching Without Appropriating the Culture

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However, during the seminar, the facilitators jumped directly into piloting GBL activities with attendees. I had hoped the seminar would address the tendency to ignore the impact of Indigenous practices in teaching; instead, it was just another example of appropriation.

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