tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070355695530434450.post4112784354049109227..comments2024-03-14T04:16:20.472-07:00Comments on In Socrates' Wake: Scrambling their argumentative eggsMichael Cholbihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02012523929044363216noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070355695530434450.post-3274530354671155462013-04-26T11:46:02.383-07:002013-04-26T11:46:02.383-07:00Great idea! I've not tried this before but I&#...Great idea! I've not tried this before but I'm going to soon. In the past I've always just had them break into their groups and flounder around trying to reconstruct bits of the text; however, I've often found that the language/jargon is too hard for them to make sense of. (Though I still find this approach very useful - they ask lots of questions and I discover what they're not understanding.) This seems like a nice "bridge" to developing the more sophisticated skills of reconstructing arguments without a list of possible claims being provided by the instructor.Christopher Stephenshttp://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/cstephens/Chris_Stephens_Website/Home_Page.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070355695530434450.post-72373045970450596432013-04-23T21:29:40.104-07:002013-04-23T21:29:40.104-07:00Oh, this is excellent! I've seen something sim...Oh, this is excellent! I've seen something similar done with multiple choice tests. The students were given a short exchange between two characters. The first advances a claim, the second raises some objection, and then the student was asked to choose the best reply. Sometimes they were given constraints like, "What is Betty's best reply to Alfred, if Betty is committed to moral realism?" The questions could be designed with greater or lesser degrees of sophistication, but I much prefer the exercise you describe. It looks like it is much better suited to getting the students to practice (and enjoy practicing!) drawing the arguments out of the text than the multiple choice test, which seemed to encourage memorizing the moves in the arguments.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com