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How to Hold Effective Classroom Discussions

Waterford

How to Lead a Class Discussion: Helpful Strategies to Know. Use this resource from Facing History and Ourselves to learn about socratic seminars in greater depth. This Edutopia article by educator Richard Curwin is a great resource for learning more about lightning rounds. Socratic Seminar. Affinity Mapping. Algozzine, B.,

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Starting my 2022 Georgetown University ed tech seminar

Bryan Alexander

This week my spring 2022 seminar began. The topic is education and technology. These seminars are mostly discussion based. We also spend time learning how to use some technologies, and that’s a mix of my showing them things, them trying them out, and me helping individuals. Technology exercises. explore Canvas.

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How to Make Classes More Active, and Why It Matters

Edsurge

The latest book she co-authored—“The New College Classroom”—is a surprisingly lively read for a how-to book on teaching. But it’s also full of examples and context that remind readers of how classroom moments, when done well, can be life-changing ones for students. You're learning how to take it. You're learning you don't count.

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How Using Slack Can Improve Socratic Seminars

Edsurge

As society becomes increasingly dependent on social media sites for consuming information and as a personal pulpit for ideas and opinions, schools and classrooms need to become the primary source of instruction on how to prepare students for effective offline and online discourse.

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The Future of Democracy Depends on a Quality Civics Education

Edsurge

Fortunately, in light of democracy’s fragility, there has been a steady increase in initiatives from federal and state governments to incorporate civics education in K-12 classrooms. These are all great steps in the right direction, but I believe there is still a lack of respect for the importance of history and civics education.

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8 Ways in which edtech supports Vocational Education

Neo LMS

For example, in Germany, vocational school graduates are more likely to be employed than their traditional education counterparts. Finland offers free of charge vocational education for all students and even state grants to help them finish their studies. . 95% of Career and technical education students also graduate high school.

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How to Evaluate Programs You’ve Never Used in Less Than Seven Minutes

Ask a Tech Teacher

If you’re like me, you spent the summer attending webinars, seminars, and conferences. It is easily applied to a variety of educational environments. Ready or not, it’s time to go back to school. You chatted with colleagues on Twitter and Facebook about learning tools they loved. But that list could take hours to preview.

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