Reference, Seminar and Twitter

Twitter in the classroom

Learning with 'e's

APRIL 19, 2015

Today I had an interesting exchange of views on Twitter. about Twitter. I mentioned that I strongly encourage the use of Twitter in my classes. Secondly, students are going to use Twitter and other media anyway, regardless. They also use them to capture images and sounds during the lecture for reference later on.

Twitter

Twitter Classroom Laptops Tablets

Ditch the Clips in Kindergarten (And Here’s What to Do Instead) #ditchtheclips

The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 31, 2018

Elizabeth Merce on episode 321 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Elizabeth: Amazingly, the #1 thing I hear from any seminar or any semester I do, for a course, is always the paradigm shift. Twitter: @EmercedLearning. There are alternatives!

Twitter

Twitter Company Course Classroom

It is Not a Project to Get Students Talking: Two Tools

Baker's B.Y.O.D.

FEBRUARY 24, 2013

A la Twitter with it''s 140 characters per message, the teacher creates the name of the room and provides the students with the URL address. In structured Socratic Seminars , students in the outer circle communicate via TodaysMeet, while those in the inner circle speak aloud. References. Oh, what I want to learn to do!

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Tools Smartphone Camtasia BYOD

How not to write about HyFlex or online learning

Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 19, 2022

At one point the professor refers to “the vague ontology of remote learning.” Over the past two years I’ve taught a series of HyFlex seminars at Georgetown. Same with this passage: higher education is trumpeted as a grid of apps piped into everyone’s personal phones. Given the stakes, we shouldn’t do otherwise.

Online Learning

Online Learning Learning Secondary Digital Divide

5 Reasons to Try a Whole Novel Approach in Your Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Ariel Sacks on episode 185 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. It’s not a Socratic seminar where I sit back and just watch it unfold. Twitter: @arielsacks. She also explains how this approach works and some advantages for teachers.

Classroom

Classroom Study Company Twitter

Digital Book Clubs for ELA

EdTechTeam

JULY 24, 2018

I may read with them one-on-one, suggest strategies, and prompt questions, but for the most part , they are discussing their reader’s notebook responses, post-its, and having a mini Socratic Seminar. (FYI, FYI, you MUST try Socratic Seminars! If you don’t know much about them, feel free to contact me and I can share!).

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iPhone Groups Video Chromebook

7 Steps to Stronger Student Collaborators in Your Classroom

EdTechTeam

JANUARY 19, 2018

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.

Classroom

Classroom Blended Learning Groups Google

Learning for the Always-On Generation (Part 3)

EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2019

– Using Socratic Seminars to create and answer thought-provoking questions. Educators can align their instructional strategies to tap into this learning attribute by: – Allowing students to use their preferred tools to perform research such as Wikipedia, YouTube, or non-digital reference materials.

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Smartphone Learning Tablets Video

Why Do High School Teachers Lecture So Much?

TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 27, 2015

Here are the results for HS students (the “skipped” vs “answered” number refers to prior years when the question was not asked; this reflects all HS students from this school year, with no filtering out of answers): So, half of HS teachers lecture at least 3/4 of the period regularly – some all period. Why aren’t you looking for better books?

Knowledge Base

Knowledge Base Course Survey Data

Worldwide, Online, and Free - The Library 2.013 Conference Starts Friday

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Lori Cahill - User Experience Lead, Titlewave Team Training Copy Cataloguers in RDA - Donna Frederick, Metadata Librarian Using Gimlet to Impact Reference Communication in Your Library - Tina Chan, Assistant Coordinator of Reference Information literacy skills of university students - Dr. .

Libraries

Libraries Conference MOOC E-rate

7 Key Characteristics Of Better Learning Feedback

TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 9, 2015

To talk of feedback, in other words, is to refer to some notable consequence of one’s actions, in light of an intent. Any and all feedback refers to a purpose I am presumed to have. Effective supervisors and coaches work hard to carefully observe and comment on what was perceived, in reference to shared goals. References.

Learning

Learning Assessment Sony Exercises

The Humanities May Be Declining at Universities — But They’re Thriving on Zoom

Edsurge

DECEMBER 9, 2021

It sounds at first like an ambitious book club—except for the fact that many of these seminars are organized and led by college professors, some so eager to participate that they do it for free. Although some of their seminars are intended as what Hitz calls a “friendly supplement” to college curricula, others are more openly antagonistic.

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