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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. Special guest: librarian Jess O’Toole. The topic is education and technology. Technology exercises. explore Canvas. edit Wikipedia.

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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. 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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Choosing the Best Overhead Classroom Projector: 5 Key Factors to Consider

ViewSonic Education

Nowadays, projectors have become versatile tools that can adapt to a wide range of spaces, from the traditional classroom to the school gym or even the grandeur of an experience center. Seminar Room & Huddle Space Overhead projector has long been used in a seminar room.

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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. When teaching a course on edtech, it’s logical to start with a look at how professors can select the best tech tools for their courses. There are more edtech tools to choose, from.

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Grad Seminar on EdTech Part 2: How Can Digital Audio Enhance Teaching and Learning?

Edsurge

This semester I’m teaching a graduate seminar on education and technology for Georgetown University. Though tools to do that are getting more accessible than ever. (I We didn’t conclude that digital audio was a universal tool for all learning, but found it one powerful strategy in the edtech ecosystem. This is part 2.

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

Edsurge

I prepared a few Socratic Seminars about their impressions of AI and its potential implications for the future of writing and education. Look,” a student pointed out in one seminar. “It As we moved through these seminars, my students helped me realize I was focusing on the wrong tensions in the debate around ChatGPT.

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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. He demonstrated Runway 2 which does this.

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