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Lesson 7

We will prepare for the Socratic Seminar by individually completing a Forming Evidence-Based Claims Tool and developing evidence-based claims for one of the guiding questions.

Lesson Goals

  • Can I develop and clearly communicate meaningful and defensible claims that represent valid, evidence-based analysis?

  • Can I pay attention to and acknowledge others, thoughtfully considering their ideas in a Socratic Seminar?

Texts

Core

  • Unit Reader
    • Excerpt from “Big Data: Seizing Opportunities, Preserving Values,” United States Executive Office of the President, Public Domain, 2014

Materials

Tools

Reference Guides

Question Sets

Editable Google Docs

Activity 1: Read – Discuss – Write

We will prepare for the Socratic Seminar in small groups.

Step 1

In small groups, review your responses to the guiding questions you considered while reading “Big Data: Seizing Opportunities, Preserving Values” for homework.

Assign each group member one of the questions below.

  1. How could big data interfere with our privacy?

  2. What are the potential benefits of big data?

  3. What are the potential risks of big data?

  4. How do we reconcile big data and privacy?

For your assigned question, individually complete the Forming Evidence-Based Claims Tool, using the rows of the tool to explain how the evidence connects together, what you understand or observe from the evidence, and what connections you can make. Then form an evidenced-based claim in response to your assigned question.

Use the annotations and notes you took in your reading to aid this process.

Step 2

Share your assigned question and your claim with your group. Write additional notes, explanations, and claims in your Learning Log for the other questions as your group members share.

Activity 2: Discuss – Write

We will prepare to participate in a Socratic Seminar by discussing expectations.

In a large class discussion, discuss what you know about a Socratic Seminar.

  1. What is a Socratic Seminar?

  2. When and where have you participated in one before?

  3. What were the characteristics of the Socratic Seminars you participated in?

After defining what a Socratic Seminar is, discuss the expectations for your class’s Socratic Seminar, one of which will be completing the Discussion Tool during the seminar.

Write down your claims from your Forming Evidence-Based Claims Tool on the Discussion Tool in the Claim column.

Activity 3: Write

For homework, we will prepare to participate in a Socratic Seminar by making additional notes on the Discussion Tool.

For homework, do any additional preparation on your Discussion Tool in order to be ready for the Socratic Seminar during the next lesson.