Discussion-Based Learning
Promote deep comprehension through Socratic seminars, case studies, and debates, allowing students to analyze and articulate ideas.
Creating the favorite class
A professor shares how Lucidspark led to a transformative learning experience students loved.
Build student agency with student led discussions
Empower students to collaborate together to drive the learning process. Instead of just participating in class discussions have students dig deeper into the content by taking turns planning, organizing, and facilitating them.
Boost class discussions with engaging polls
Drive student engagement and spark dynamic discussions in your online, hybrid, and in-person courses using interactive visual polls.
Practice creating arguments with ice breakers
Help students develop strong arguments by using fun debate focused ice breakers.
Facilitate student-led discussions
Help students reflect on and expand their thinking by considering things such as: questioning deep-seated assumptions, considering opposing points of view, and looking at the historical or global perspectives.
Deepen class discussions
Empower students to confidently express their informed opinions by challenging assumptions and exploring diverse viewpoints.
Connecting ideas with hexagonal thinking
How can we get more students to talk—and talk more deeply—about what they’re learning? Try out hexagonal thinking routines.
Making discussions human again
create authentic discussions that encourage short, conversational peer-to-peer interactions and engagments that can't be easily generated by AI such as emoji reactions, highlighting, sentence stems, annotation symbols, etc.
Tips for grading collaborative discussions in Canvas
Learn quick, easy ways to grade discussion participation and drive deeper student accountability and engagement.
Use video to kickstart a debate
Students watch a thought provoking video, add their thinking on an agreement continuum and discuss all in one place.
Cultivate fun, engaging discussions
Inject a little fun into your discussions using "Cat Chats" and "Doggo Dialogues." These templates increase student engagement and encourage a deeper level of thinking and debate.
Teaching academic integrity through class discussions
Help students navigate through the gray areas of academic integrity in this new age of AI through collective discussions, reflection and real-world application.