http://people.mbi.ucla.edu/leec/docs/socraticqs/tutorial.html
Agenda:
- What did you learn about your chosen topic?
- Did you change your question based on your attempts to diagnose wrong answers?
- How long did it take to come up with two good questions?
- Does this approach scale?
- What else do you (think you) need to know before you start leading boot camps?
Lex:
- two questions: permissions and sorting
- got one wrong himself
- went back to first question and changed input to get four different answers
- second one: struggling to find more than two wrong ones
- found this a difficult exercise: hard to keep things simple (always tending toward complexity)
- Spent an hour to an hour and a half
- Karin’s comment: can crowdsource it
Steve
- cheated: used questions and wrong answers drawn from exam scripts he was marking
- 20-30 minutes to do, but thinking about it in the background for a week
- suggestion: take notes during boot camps of what people are getting wrong
Ariel
- Q: does anonymity matter in asking questions in this context?
- A: yes — people feel shy
- During recent workshop, had people post questions anonymously on a wall
- Requiring people to do things lowers the threshold on coming up with something
Karin
- took longer than anticipated: an hour for Q1, several hours for Q2 (thinking, not doing)
- had to flip it over: couldn’t begin to think about question, but rather had to start with what I wanted to figure out/diagnose
- hard to remember “beginner’s mind”
- doesn’t scale done solo, would scale crowdsourcing
Ted
- hard to come up with wrong answers
- first two was an hour and change, later questions would take more time (easy ones taken)
*Homework: write a final post about this class. What did you learn? What worked well? What could we improve? What did you want to learn that we didn’t cover? Please post as “Round 2.5″, and thank you for taking part.
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