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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Fred Friendly Seminars are based on the Socratic Method. Local discussion groups can use the same method to explore the lessons of DISCONNECTED: Politics, the Press and the Public. The Socratic ...

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.

Among the many teaching techniques I am not good at (yet) is asking good questions. I’m trying to cut down on GWOMM questions, I do OK at getting some discussion going, and I can generally ask a ...