Mock-Socratic? Sort of like this discussion list where we are supposedly
discussing however just responding based on the words.
While I can see the value of professional notes (at least then you will
know what the prof thought important) it seems to me most lecture type
learning happens when I transcribe the words into another format for
myself.
To me, mind mapping a book or presenting the material to someone else is
how I actually comprehend it.
Curt
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Barry MacKichan <
[email protected]> wrote:
> … Coming in at the tail of this (I have my mail program turned off most of
> the day), but I have a few comments.
>
> I'm still trying to get my head around the concept of a "Socratic" course
> delivered through a remote, time-shifted medium. Is it virtual-Socratic?
> meta-Socratic? voyeur-Socratic?
>
> Several courses in the math PhD program at Stanford had students paid to
> take official notes. It cost very little to Xerox these and save myself
> many hours. Some lectures were pretty useless, but I went for the sake of
> the ego of the lecturer. In a quarter course by Kunihiko Kodaira, I
> understood only two words; "theolem" and "ploof". But he was a very nice,
> earnest man, as well as a Fields Medal winner.
>
>
> --Barry
>
> On Mar 6, 2013, at 8:31 PM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> You see, I was picked up at Logan Airport by my old friend Michael Sandel,
> who teaches the famous Socratic, 1,000-student “Justice” course at Harvard,
> which is launching March 12 as the first humanities offering on the
> M.I.T.-Harvard edX online learning platform.
>
>
>
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