Decisions about Discussion

How do you determine

Conversations have the power to

• Advance our thinking
• Build community
• Engage us in active learning
• Make learning social
• Build stronger brain pathways (p. 110).

When is the last time you had a productive conversation?
When is the last time you had an empathic conversation? (Classroom, life)

Tell your partner

How important is our talk?

How will you promote empathic conversation in your field?

"Conversations become a platform to essentially rehearse thinking patterns that later on might become a habit." (p. 111 NF)

What does that mean?

Talking with someone

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In order for students to begin, they must know and recognize "conversational behaviors." (p. 116)

"When readers think through texts in these ways, the result is often that the conversations mirror their thinking." (p. 120 F)

Talk

• Math http://www.ascd.org/ascd-express/vol13/1322-toc.aspx

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Social Studies http://www.socialstudies.org/sites/default/files/publications/se/6502/65020...

Cult of Pedagogy (listen or read) discussion strategies : https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/speaking-listening-techniques/

Language Arts: https://secure.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Resources/Journals/VM/0221-sep2014/VM0221Teaching.org

Thin Slice Conversations

• Ability to negotiate conversation
• Ability to be authentic
• Ability to negotiate their thinking about thinking

Experiment

• In groups of three
• Two people talk
• One records "conversational behaviors"

Topic: 2 choices

What did you notice?