Talking in Class @ ECIS

20 NOVEMBER 2015
Designing Academic Conversations

Welcome!

After you are comfortably settled, please visit the Talking in Class website and click to complete this pre-workshop survey.  We will begin shortly!


​Overview

  1. Introductions: Brianna, Jake, and the research
  2. Talking in Class: rationale, research, and results
  3. 5 Core Skills for Academic Conversation (try them!)
  4. Planning and Application
  5. Post-workshop survey
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Five Core Skills for Academic Conversation

  1. Elaborate and Clarify
  2. Support Ideas with Examples
  3. Build on or Challenge a Partner's Idea
  4. Paraphrase
  5. Synthesize

Planning and Application

  1. Seven Features of Effective Conversation

  2. Q & A
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From Talking in Class: Increasing the Quality and Quantity of Student-to-Student Dialogue in the Classroom (2013)
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From Academic Conversations: Classroom Talk that Fosters Critical Thinking and Understanding (2011)