Tag Archives: Dialogue

Quiz Biz

Posted on August 26, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

When I taught undergrad math, I told my students that tests were simply a means of communication between student and teacher designed to guide the instruction process, that it was a matter of some inconvenience that third parties had taken … Continue reading →

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Ask Meno Questions

Posted on October 12, 2012 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Richard Hake • Experiment by Argentinian Neuroscientists Suggests “Socratic” (i.e. “Platonic”) Dialogue Is An Educational Failure I would not have imagined it possible to read Plato’s Meno quite so literally as those inquirers did — but now I do … Continue reading →

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