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A Socratic Seminar for Elementary Learners

User Generated Education

Socratic seminars have been around, obviously, since the days of Socratics. The goal of the Socratic method is to help students process information and engage in deeper understanding of topics. In the Socratic seminar, the teacher uses questions to guide discussion around specific learning goals. Sneetches: A Socratic Seminar.

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Starting my 2022 Georgetown University ed tech seminar

Bryan Alexander

This week my spring 2022 seminar began. These seminars are mostly discussion based. As the seminar progresses, they will use technologies they study to create these reflections. That’s because most of it worked well, based on my judgement of individual sessions, informal feedback from students, and from class evaluations.

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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. identifying an idea worth highlighting, and.

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Follow Along With a Grad Seminar About Edtech: Part 1, Picking the Best Tech

Edsurge

This semester I’m teaching a graduate seminar on education and technology for Georgetown University. They asked for more information and clarifications about some of the tech I presented, such as introductions to Hypothesis and Discourse.

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

Edsurge

As we returned from winter break, knowing our students were armed with this information, we were more concerned about what might happen when our students no longer interacted with the skills developed in our courses. Look,” a student pointed out in one seminar. “It It has nice transitions and everything, but it’s not saying anything.”

Classroom 211
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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. This qualitative information, for me as an educator, is a much better measure of success in the classroom than any type of quantitative information. I wear many hats as an educator. I love learning new things.

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How We Can Honor Indigenous Values in Our Teaching Without Appropriating the Culture

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However, during the seminar, the facilitators jumped directly into piloting GBL activities with attendees. I had hoped the seminar would address the tendency to ignore the impact of Indigenous practices in teaching; instead, it was just another example of appropriation.

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