Comments on: Getting beyond professors in a can http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2009/01/26/getting-beyond-professors-in-a-can/ A posting every day; an interesting idea every three months... Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:40:58 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5.2 hourly 1 By: Clickers http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2009/01/26/getting-beyond-professors-in-a-can/comment-page-1/#comment-98713 Clickers Mon, 02 Feb 2009 02:44:19 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/?p=1205#comment-98713 The physicists at MIT's TEAL lab seem to be doing OK: http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3990.html The physicists at MIT’s TEAL lab seem to be doing OK:

http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3990.html

]]> By: George http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2009/01/26/getting-beyond-professors-in-a-can/comment-page-1/#comment-98344 George Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:35:03 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/?p=1205#comment-98344 I spoke with a grad student long ago who told me that the set of people who learn best from lectures makes up less than a quarter of the population — but a majority of the professoriate. SICP study groups seem to be popping up everywhere I look: a bunch of people start up a private email list and go through The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs chapter by chapter, helping each other with the exercises and examples. Maybe I should get one started for van Roy and Haridi's Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming (CTM). I spoke with a grad student long ago who told me that the set of people who learn best from lectures makes up less than a quarter of the population — but a majority of the professoriate.

SICP study groups seem to be popping up everywhere I look: a bunch of people start up a private email list and go through The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs chapter by chapter, helping each other with the exercises and examples. Maybe I should get one started for van Roy and Haridi’s Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming (CTM).

]]> By: cthrall http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2009/01/26/getting-beyond-professors-in-a-can/comment-page-1/#comment-98334 cthrall Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:26:52 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/?p=1205#comment-98334 I took a Physics class in a classroom that had little HP pocket computers. The teacher would ask us a multiple choice question once he had covered a main topic. If the majority of the students answered correctly, he would continue. If the distribution was random, it would indicate more time was needed. This was the best educational application of technology I have ever seen. I never understood why people concentrated on high-bandwidth video. Non-interactive video puts me to sleep. I took a Physics class in a classroom that had little HP pocket computers. The teacher would ask us a multiple choice question once he had covered a main topic. If the majority of the students answered correctly, he would continue. If the distribution was random, it would indicate more time was needed.

This was the best educational application of technology I have ever seen. I never understood why people concentrated on high-bandwidth video. Non-interactive video puts me to sleep.

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