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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. UDL guidelines . The topic is education and technology. In this post, I’d like to share some course materials and my thinking behind it.

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Rewiring Student Brains for Class Discussions

MiddleWeb

A Socratic seminar calls on ALL the big executive skills. Many teachers are intrigued by the Socratic method but worry "it won't work with my students." Patricia Cook and Susanne Croasdaile found that we don’t need to wait until they’re all "ready" – we can just dive in!

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Personalizing the Journey for Our Students

The Principal of Change

Katie Novak , an internationally recognized expert in Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and all-around awesome person, discusses this personalization of learning for students and why it is so significant : Imagine this scene in a 3rd-grade classroom: Students are sitting quietly on the floor as a teacher reads Charlotte’s Web aloud.

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Here’s the Syllabus for Your Summer Crash Course in Online Education

Edsurge

No one knows yet what the next semester will bring, but there’s a good chance the spaces where you used to teach, whether cavernous lecture hall or cozy seminar room, won’t be available this fall. Congratulations, you made it through the virtual semester. That’s right, more virtual class time may be in your future.

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