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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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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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How the pandemic accelerated the need for interactive learning spaces

Neo LMS

For example, students can send messages and work together on the same documents. For example, each student can grow a plant in different conditions, documenting their observations with videos and pictures, as this is so easy to do online. Synchronous tools such as chat, web conferencing, and debate assignments are just as important.

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4 Awesome edtech solutions for making students fall in love with reading

Neo LMS

Students can annotate documents or books, comment and respond to comments. It’s a little bit like an online literature seminar, in which students and teachers comment on paragraphs, share their ideas, and exchange notes. Give it a try, especially if you want to motivate college students to go through their reading assignments.

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When Bots Go to Class

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Johnny Chang, a Stanford University graduate student who organized a national online seminar last summer to encourage more educators to learn about and try AI, had some questions about the approach at Ferris State. “If The concept is: What if a syllabus was something that students could ask questions of rather than a static document? “If

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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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Best Platforms for Group Discussions

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

For instance, during a project-based learning activity, students can break into small groups using the breakout room feature, work collaboratively on shared documents, and then present their findings to the larger class group. The file-sharing capabilities of Teams are also a significant advantage.

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