[Edu-sig] Role Reversal...

[Dethe Elza]

Teaching by asking questions is the essence of the Socratic method. 
Getting your students to ask the questions is recommended in "Teaching
as a Subversive Activity" and "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
Maintenance."  Of course, after having suprising success with the method
(in Zen and...), Phaedrus then went mad.

Teach at your own risk.

--Dethe

On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 12:36, Peter H. Froehlich wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I read the "teaching by role reversal" discussion, and while I like 
> the general idea, I have to admit (maybe I am getting too old) that 
> it sounds like quite a risky project.
> 
> In my experience, many (most?) students are just not interested, 
> all they need is a grade. The five exceptions to the rule per 
> quarter make teaching fun. That might be a function of the US 
> system, but I have the weird feeling that most of my class would 
> stare at me blankly when I say "Okay, so those are the basics of 
> hash tables. Now give me some problems regarding the data structure 
> that I can solve for you." or something.
> 
> On the other hand, maybe I am not getting the approach described 
> correctly, or maybe I would even be surprised by the response once 
> I do it in class. I think I will give it a whirl once or twice 
> during the coming quarter, just to see what happens.
> 
> Peter
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