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How Using Slack Can Improve Socratic Seminars

Edsurge

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. This framework, which some refer to as the “Habits of Discussion,” equips teachers and students with a common language for engaging in classroom discourse.

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

Edsurge

In 2013, the state of Vermont committed itself to the value and promise that personalized learning holds for its students by passing Act 77 , often referred to as the Flexible Pathways Initiative. Other students are enrolled in online courses at both the secondary and postsecondary level.

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How not to write about HyFlex or online learning

Bryan Alexander

A second problem comes in the article’s view of who’s involved in post-secondary teaching. The problem is that the piece cites a liberal arts campus as an example of post-secondary education as a whole. At one point the professor refers to “the vague ontology of remote learning.” That’s about 2.5%

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

Edsurge

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.

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Trends to watch in 2015: education and technology

Bryan Alexander

There’s now a movement to teach humanities seminars online. Primary and secondary schools are a battleground between iPads and Chromebooks, it seems. I’m not referring to the uses of tech in sports, but funding. This rising tide could pause.

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7 Steps to Stronger Student Collaborators in Your Classroom

EdTechTeam

Step 4 Socratic Seminar with Sentence Starters: Move to an on-the-spot, think-fast, response system that requires accountable talk or sentence starters. Socratic seminars are just the activity for this. Great Book, Junior Great Book Shared Inquiry discussions , and Fishbowl discussions are similar to a Socratic seminar.

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The Rough Beasts of Ed-Tech

Hack Education

Rebellions and republics – I thought briefly about calling this talk “The Terrible Beauty of Ed-Tech,” a reference to W. The entry point for students into Trump University was a free 90-minute seminar, which continued into a 3-day seminar that cost $1500. Doing so will even raise your credit score.