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How Using Slack Can Improve Socratic Seminars

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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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22 Classroom-Focused Resources on AI from Teachers Everywhere

The CoolCatTeacher

Generative AI in the Classroom with Steve Dembo Donnie Piercey, AI and Math Donnia Piercey @ mrpiercEy is sharing how to integrate AI into Math instruction and is hosting an upcoming seminar with the National Council of Math Teachers on a deep dive on AI in math instruction for elementary grades.

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A Gullible Population Is a National Security Issue

The CoolCatTeacher

Army War College National Security Seminar that caused this response. For the curious, one requirement for attending the Army War College National Security Seminar is “non-attribution.” We must be literate on how to verify information BEFORE sharing it. It was a discussion about a digital literacy issue at the U.S.

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22 Strategies For Learning Through Conversation

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Paideia Seminar. You can read more about the Paideia Seminar here. Socratic Seminar. You can read more here in What Is A Socratic Seminar? ’ A secondary function of using podcasts to promote learning through conversation is that they document the conversation. See more on that at number 11 below.).

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Here’s What Happens When Every Student Gets a Personalized Learning Plan

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Vermont’s Agency of Education (AOE) defines flexible pathways as “any combination of high-quality academic and experiential components leading to secondary school completion and postsecondary readiness.” Other students are enrolled in online courses at both the secondary and postsecondary level.

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Preparing Young Students for Home Row Keyboarding: An Unplugged Approach

Ask a Tech Teacher

Then I ran into Dr. William Morgan on one of the education forums I frequent and was thrilled that he knows a lot about them and was willing to share his expertise to kick-off a mini-seminar in classroom keyboarding. Teachers don’t have time to teach each child how to do this, so, much of keyboard learning is done by self-directed games.

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The Makings (and Misgivings) of a Statewide Effort to Personalize Learning in Massachusetts

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Formed in December 2016 by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (MESE) and the. Kenneth Klau, Director of Digital Learning, Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. You can personalize learning just fine without technology. Sometimes, it is just a distraction.