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A Socratic Seminar for Elementary Learners

User Generated Education

I’ve used them successfully in my teaching training classes but never with elementary learners. 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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Balance the Delivery

Ask a Tech Teacher

After a year of blended instruction, or a combination of face-to-face learning and online learning, schools are questioning the amount of time students spend in front of screens. Even during the past school year, many educators who previously used the blended learning approach decided to reduce the amount of virtual learning.

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

Edsurge

The Source of Teachers’ Concerns Years ago, I learned about artificial intelligence (AI) assistance in student writing in an online forum for English teachers. I prepared a few Socratic Seminars about their impressions of AI and its potential implications for the future of writing and education. They all balked at what it churned out.

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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. The students co-constructed their learning experiences with me. Coronavirus Chronicles 005 – Mabel Rush Elementary School. The students co-constructed their learning experiences with me. Related Posts.

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Choosing Not to Grade Student Work

User Generated Education

I am a seminar facilitator for student teachers, and I teach gifted education at three Title 1 elementary schools. The results of not grading and designing intrinsically motivated learning activities can be heard in the spontaneous comments made by learners. I love learning new things. Is it time to go leave already?

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Uncertified teachers filling holes in schools across the South

The Hechinger Report

But Texas’ second-largest district had to fill elementary classrooms and core subjects in middle and high schools. Preservice teachers take an ethics seminar provided by the Athens State college of education, Tuesday, Oct. The seminar aimed to help prepare prospective teachers for real-world issues in the education workplace.

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22 Classroom-Focused Resources on AI from Teachers Everywhere

The CoolCatTeacher

So, yesterday I asked educators on “X” (the new rebranded, Twitter, I guess) to share where they are learning about AI. I have been writing about my learning experiences & what I've used in my classroom for the past 5 years, this is from last year. AI and machine learning experiments from Google.

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