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parlor
Scaling classroom participation.

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Class Size is Growing
Lecture in 1350s

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Lecture Today

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Online Course

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UNLIKE SCIENCE AND MATH
HUMANITIES CLASSES DON’T SCALE

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Q. HOW DO SCIENCE AND MATH COURSES
KEEP STUDENTS ENGAGED AT SCALE?
A. PROBLEM SETS
POINTS! Assignments are bite-sized,
quantifiable…and self-perpetuating.
Feedback is self-serve and
provided, automatically.

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Q. WHAT'S THE MORAL EQUIVALENT OF
"PROBLEM SETS" FOR THE HUMANITIES?
A. Multiple choice Q&A is limited.
B. Short answer and essay questions are
labor-intensive to grade.
C. Seminar style discussions don’t scale.

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PARLOR’S APPROACH
EMBED DISCUSSION AND LIGHTWEIGHT
QUIZZING IN COURSE READINGS.
TOUR

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The Parlor App is available for Chrome and Firefox.
Parlor is an App
that helps teachers…

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1. Cultivate a reading habit.
Build a “reading list” for your course.

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2. Encourage active reading
Students seek out and
highlight relevant insights
for each other.
3. Quiz constantly,
everywhere
Students are asked to
reflect on what they’re
sharing…and bucket reading
by course concepts.

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4. Peer Review
Sharing starts two-way
conversations between
students in the class…

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5. Provide self-serve feedback
Students can see the topic breadth of
their reading relative to the class.
* As a student, see which topics you’ve read v. the class.

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5. Provide self-serve feedback
Which concepts do the students “get”?
Which ones are being neglected?
* As a student, see which course concepts you’ve flagged.

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5. Provide self-serve feedback
How broadly is the class reading?
* As a student, see which sites you read v. the class.

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6. Gauge student reactions
What’s confusing? What’s amazing?
What’s controversial?

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7. See measureable results
Catch students that are falling behind
before they fail the mid-term exam.

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Avg. time spent
reading each article
Total # of
Articles Read
8. Put on the Peer Pressure
Use friendly competition to push students
to read more broadly and deeply.

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To learn more about trying Parlor in your
classroom, visit parlorproject.com/pilot