Re: Personal Response Systems (clickers)

[Kelley <dancinglight@bendbroadband.com>]

Richard Hake wrote:

> <snip>
>
> 3. May allow a cost-effective Socratic approach [Hake (1992, 2002c, 
> 2004d), Abrahamson (1998)] to instruction in large-enrollment 
> "lecture" sections. The Socratic potential of CCS has been generally 
> overlooked in the literature, possibly because of the gross 
> misunderstanding of the Socratic Method by academics (Hake 2004d).


In other words, may provide another rationalization for keeping, or even 
increasing, large class sizes.   Perhaps, after a couple of classes and 
8 years and doing "Socratic Seminars" in primary grades, 2nd - 8th 
grade, I grossly misunderstand the Socratic Method.  Perhaps I 
shouldn't, from a primary perspective, be suspicious.  I'm sure that 
TPTB would never take a large group lecture/respond method used to check 
listeners' understanding and use it to simulate real discussion, where 
everyone gets to share and hear others.  I'm sure TPTB wouldn't take 
something like this, and, having declared it successful in universities, 
move it down to high schools, then middle schools, then primary 
classrooms. 
Still, I am.  Suspicious, that is. 

Kelley