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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

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. To maximize participation and use of the strategy, we provide discussion stems for the habit. identifying an idea worth highlighting, and.

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20 Types Of Questions For Teaching Critical Thinking

TeachThought - Learn better.

It’s from that kind of perspective that TeachThought was founded, so it was surprising to me when I realized recently that, after years of writing about questions and questions stems and the power of questions and so on, I hadn’t ever written about the types of questions. What is a ‘good question’?

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What’s next? Lessons from the lockdown on traditional education

Neo LMS

The problem might stem from the fact that in general, we view traditional, teacher-centered education to be the best way to teach. That could also be true for seminars and lab projects. Online learning is student-centered by default, having its own advantages and pitfalls. Read more: 5 Benefits of including VR in classroom activities.

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How Teaching Online Can Change Your Life

EdNews Daily

My training and teaching background encompasses after-school programs, church’s institutes, women’s focus studies, women’s empowerment groups, conferences, workshops, seminars, and teaching STEM to kids in an after-school boys and girls club, located in Baltimore. Clearly, I thought to myself, “I am not in my comfort zone.”

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Check for Understanding: What Are You Learning About Your Students During the Lesson?

Catlin Tucker

Science teachers can ask students to share images from a lab or STEM challenge. For example, teachers who are observing a Socratic seminar or a small group discussion can create a rubric aligned with a speaking and listening standard. That way all of the pictures are in one place for quick reference.

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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. These last parts stem from my classroom democracy belief, as does our opening class assignment of collaboratively determining class norms.