Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2023

Justin Reich now teaches digital media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but his first job was teaching a short wilderness medicine course. EdSurge: Many schools have looked to bring in technology to help improve teaching. And they said, ‘the principals weren't trying to stop this teacher use of Google Docs.’

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

FEBRUARY 24, 2013

In structured Socratic Seminars , students in the outer circle communicate via TodaysMeet, while those in the inner circle speak aloud. Here is a transcript of a Socratic Seminar on Steinbeck''s Of Mice and Men. Google Hangouts One of my go-to Google guys, Troy Cockrum , told me to not be afraid to Hangout by myself, and he was right.

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Tools Smartphone Camtasia BYOD 122

Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2017

The second option is to go through a course with a cohort and attend weekly live video seminars and get assignments graded (for about $200 per course). Throughout her work day, she would take breaks from her duties to go through the course’s short interactive exercises, and she’d finish about one lesson per day that way.

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Coursera Company Course Microsoft 70

Edsurge

MAY 18, 2019

We screened them using a pre-interview questionnaire built in Google Form. Attending sessions and seminars at these events can also provide valuable professional development. Meeting your peers on a periodic basis can be an invaluable exercise.

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iLearn Technology

APRIL 23, 2018

Students can create and share a book talk or chapter reflection, discuss current events, delve into a topic, engage in an online Socratic seminar around a given topic, collaborate, verbalize their learning process, etc. Flipgrid works in any classroom, with any age student, and within any subject.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Equally important, the approach offers a readymade solution to a universal problem: In the information age, how do you teach students to think for themselves when so many answers are just a Google search away? “We

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Flipped Classroom Khan Academy Learning Video 133

EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

It’s hard to have a discussion or answer a question that can’t be immediately looked up by searching Google. Technology allows us to keep asking “Why? Students need to exercise this new habit every day. This method is still sound 1600 years after Socrates and 15-ish years after the Socratic Seminars were first established.

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