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Tech Tip #90: Don’t Be Afraid of Mulligans

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The question I usually get when I mention this to teachers at training seminars is, how do you have time? In fact, their confidence is so improved, they often are the kids who come in during lunch to offer assistance to other struggling students. Truth: Not that many kids take advantage of my offer. That’s OK.

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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. Technology, presentation, and preparatory materials TBD by students. Student presentations. The topic is education and technology.

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Engineers Week Feb. 18-24

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During Engineers Week, engineering societies, universities, companies, and other organizations organize workshops, competitions, seminars, outreach programs to schools, career fairs, and networking events.

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How Using Slack Can Improve Socratic Seminars

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Our interest in academic discourse, and by extension Socratic seminars, stems from our work as Hollyhock fellows at Stanford’s Center to Support Excellence in Teaching. The fellowship is a two-year program of professional development designed to combat the teacher retention problem, primarily in low-income schools.

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CAE Presents Case For Authentic Assessment To Improve Student Outcomes At Beyond Multiple Choice Seminar

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CAE), a nonprofit developer of performance-based and custom assessments that authentically measure students’ essential college and career readiness skills, recently presented “Leveraging Performance Tasks to Assess College Readiness” , at “Assessment Challenges of Our New Decade” hosted by Beyond Multiple Choice.

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

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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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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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