Amp Up Your Lesson
Technology Companions for Various Teaching Strategies
Socratic Seminar
PREPARATION PIECE
- Create a folder in Google Drive and share it with your students
- Store the article/piece in this folder so kids may access it
- OR Create a QR code for the kids to scan to get the article/piece
- Have students create a Google Doc for the notes they take over the piece-encourage them to link any outside sources they explored after being inspired by the article/piece
- Create a form where students submit their questions so you have a list to choose from during discussion
DURING THE DISCUSSION
- Have students continue to add to their notes in Google Docs
- Create a TodaysMeet for questions students think of during the discussion that can be answered out loud or silently but simultaneously during discussion
- Start a Zoom session with other classes on your campus or on other campuses to make the discussion "global"
AFTER THE SEMINAR
- Have all the students put their Google Docs in the shared folder-you can grade them and have the students look at all of them
- Ask students to make appropriate comments on other classmates' notes from the seminar
- Create a Padlet for students to post their final thoughts
- OR create a Google Slide presentation where each student creates one slide of his/her final thoughts-then you can play the presentation for the whole class
World Cafés
However, technology can be easily integrated via an end product. Perhaps the students create a TACKK or Smore that synthesizes all of the information on the posters from the Café.
Gallery Walks
If the Gallery Walk is to showcase individual or group projects, start by giving the students a digital option for their project. (The option is great because students who still want to create something more tangible or poster-like may, but this is an opportunity to see what kind of tech projects might roll in.) Then they can create a QR code for their project which can be posted on the wall just like other posters and projects.
All projects, even the non-digital ones, could have a QR code that sends students to a Google Doc or Padlet where students may leave feedback and comments about the project.
Journaling
Students don't necessarily have to blog as themselves. Maybe they study up on a prominent figure within a discipline (Marie Curie, Pythagoras, Benjamin Franklin, Edgar Allen Poe, etc.) or a character from a current read and blog as that person/character.
Quickwrites
Learning Log
Lydia Croupe-ITS
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