Processing Texts, Ideas, and New Understandings with Twitter Chats + Socratic Seminar

Jennifer Lund and I had the opportunity to partner this month with IB Theory of Knowledge teachers Dan Byrne and Dr. James Glenn. Our instructional design challenge was to think about how we might help student process the first chapters of an advanced text,The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently…and Why, by Dr. Richard Nisbett. Inspired by our previous efforts with Socratic circles and Twitter chat with Emily Russell’s Language Arts classes, we all agreed this me...