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What are the characteristics of good conversation?

Your Weekly Eureka Moment Be Respectful. Appreciate others' thinking. ... Be Prepared. Focus on the topic, activate background knowledge, and make connections. ... Be An Active Listener. Look at the person speaking. ... Be Clear. ... Inquire and Probe. ... Show Comprehension. Check Understanding. ... Control Self.

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We engage in conversation as learners, as professionals, and in social settings.

The idea behind a "common core" set of standards is critically important; what are the core concepts and skills - the ABCs if you will - that will enable our students to learn to learn? One could argue that it comes down to the pillars of literacy for lifelong learning - reading, writing, conversation, and presentation. We build, shape, and grow our knowledge, understandings, and experiences through conversation. As lifelong learners, conversation provides us the opportunity to exercise thinking, creativity, and problem solving. The ability to effectively engage in conversation is developed through a knowledge and skill set. The Eight Traits of Conversation represents that knowledge and skill set. We have had huge success with these traits by making them core learning objectives across grade levels so that by the time the kids leave elementary or middle school these traits become a habit of mind. Our students grow their art of conversation.

Check them out. What do you think?

1. Be Respectful

Appreciate others’ thinking. Encourage others to participate in the conversation.

Take the conversation seriously. Disagree politely.

2. Be Prepared

Focus on the topic, activate background knowledge, and make connections. Prepare for conversations about shared reading by generating questions, making notes, and marking passages. Participate and contribute to the conversation.

3. Be An Active Listener

Look at the person speaking. Ask questions based upon what others have said. Build upon and add to what others have to say.

4. Be Clear

Speak clearly so that others understand. Speak in complete sentences. Express thoughts precisely and with details. Support thinking with evidence.

5. Inquire and Probe

Ask multiple, open-ended questions. Investigate, examine, scrutinize, and analyze others’ thoughts and ideas.

6. Show Comprehension

Exercise cognitive processes, meta-cognition, and comprehension through the elements of literature in order to demonstrate understanding.

7. Check Understanding

Examine thinking. Listen to the inner conversation. Reflect upon and communicate how thoughts have changed. Share with others when understanding breaks down.

8. Control Self

Take turns and give others the opportunity to speak. Monitor contributions to the conversation in terms of how often and how much. Listen without interrupting. Use wait time. Pay attention to volume and tone. We even wrote a thought provoking piece of poetry for the Traits of Conversation:

A Passion for Conversation

Being polite and respectful,

one trait of conversation's art,

completely prepared and engaged,

with passion we are ready to start.

To be an active listener,

in a sincere, authentic way,

being clear, seeking clarity,

asking questions at our cafe.

To gain a deep understanding,

we think, inquire, and probe to know,

monitoring comprehension,

the inner voice begins to grow.

Controlling impulsiveness too,

engaging this way is mature.

Our spiritual rudder guides us,

integrity makes the talk pure.

Thoughts?

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Fishing describes the act of reaching out to multiple people on dating apps that you think you could have a chance with and waiting to see who will respond. Out of those that do, you then select who you want to reply to (now that you know you're in with a chance) and ignore those who don't float your boat.

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If you’re at all familiar with the world of online dating, you will have already heard about the likes of breadcrumming, benching and ghosting but what about fishing? It’s pretty common, apparently. Fishing describes the act of reaching out to multiple people on dating apps that you think you could have a chance with and waiting to see who will respond. Out of those that do, you then select who you want to reply to (now that you know you’re in with a chance) and ignore those who don’t float your boat. Essentially, it’s like casting your net, seeing who bites the bait, taking a look at your “catch” and then throwing the “fish” you don’t want back into the sea.

Fairly brutal, right?

The problem is that typically conversations will start with standard messages like “how’s it going?” or “what are you up to?” so it can be pretty difficult to detect when you’re actually being “fished” as opposed to just having a laid-back chat with a potential suitor. The things to watch out for are generic messages (these are likely to have been copied and pasted to a range of people), messages late at night (particularly on the weekends), slow replies and a lack of interest in taking time to actually find out about your life, even in the initial stages of messaging. Depressingly, this technique is undeniably common - if you’ve not been fished, you might well have fished yourself - but also a reminder that finding love online can be a bit of a numbers game. However, if you stick to the advice above on how to spot it, and avoid doing it yourself, there’s everything to play for.

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