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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. To maximize participation and use of the strategy, we provide discussion stems for the habit. identifying an idea worth highlighting, and.

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22 Strategies For Learning Through Conversation

TeachThought - Learn better.

You could always give simple rules, provide basic question or answer stems, and have students ‘debate’ one another–or you, the teacher, assuming a person, place, or idea. See also Sentence Stems for Higher-Level Discussion. Paideia Seminar. You can read more about the Paideia Seminar here.

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

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Students can see how texting, emailing, video conferencing, Socratic Seminars, online discussions, and face to face conversation all provides different takes when communicating. Often, this practice can be seen in STEM and PBL classrooms. In fact, I have a STEM is a Verb Session and Workshop I can bring to your location.

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Using Digital Archives to Teach Data Set Creation and Visualization Design

ProfHacker

Advanced undergraduate and graduate students alone tend to benefit from the growing number of projects archiving primary documents online. But digital archives providing access to rare images, correspondence, reviews, and manuscripts have the capacity to benefit a spectrum of undergraduates, including those majoring in STEM fields.

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Free Digital Formative Assessment Tools… Important Thoughts Before Implementing

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

STEM, 21st century learning, and technology integration, please sign up for 21centuryedtech by email or RSS. I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, and the 4 C’s. Incorporate in a Socrative Seminar. Training Documents. I have done 100?s Your idea.

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PBL… Blended and eLearning – Part 1: Important Questions for the New School Year

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, and the 4 C’s. I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, and the 4 C’s. It is important that we document the process so we can learn and plan from it.

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Racial gaps in math have grown. Could detracking help?

The Hechinger Report

This back-to-school season, the Education Reporting Collaborative, a coalition of eight newsrooms, will be documenting the enormous challenge facing our schools and highlighting examples of progress. Kianna Livingston was one of the ninth-graders enrolled in the math seminar and detracked Algebra 1 in 2014-15.

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