If you’ve ever tried a Socratic seminar with your students, or know a colleague who has, this story may sound eerily familiar: After spending the semester shoring up students’ contextual knowledge ...

With so much talk about the Common Core standards and truly increasing our student’s argumentative powers and critical thinking skills, some teachers are starting to think critically themselves about ...

Over the past few years, I’ve attended summer workshop after summer workshop that touted the merits of Socratic seminars. The discussions revolved around open-ended questions facilitated by not ...

I’ve found Socratic Seminars to be an effective way to integrate social and collaborative learning in the classroom; give students the chance to ask meaningful questions about texts; and engage with ...

It was 1:30 on a Friday afternoon at Sullivan High School on Chicago’s Far North Side. In Room 208, next to the file cabinet with the sticker saying, “Minds are like parachutes: They function only ...

This post is by Brian Delgado a teacher at High Tech High. I have been doing Socratic Seminars in my physics class long enough to know when they go well. There is a buzz of dialogue that lingers for ...

The Bitcoin meetup scene has been a vibrant global community since the early days of Bitcoin’s history. There have been Bitcoin meetups in most major cities on a regular basis for at least five years.

For the second year in row, local Yiddish learning organization Arbeter Ring (Workmen’s Circle) will offer Secular Yeshiva, a bimonthly course with Socratic-style seminars, focused on “history and ...

Livine is blunt in her description of her relationship to her phone. “Parasitical.” The 15-year-old said it profits off her and she gets harmed. “Sometimes when I'm using my phone, and I try to put it ...