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
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… 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.
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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