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Machine Teaching: An Inverse Problem to Machine Learning and an Approach Toward Optimal Education Open
I draw the reader's attention to machine teaching, the problem of finding an optimal training set given a machine learning algorithm and a target model. In addition to generating fascinating mathematical questions for computer scientists t…
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ChatGPT and the frustrated Socrates Open
We present a case study of a conversation between ourselves and an artificial intelligence-based chatbot ChatGPT. We asked the chatbot to respond to a basic physics question that will be familiar to most physics teachers: ‘ A teddy bear is…
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Introduction To Scale Up: Student Centered Activities For Large Enrollment University Physics Open
NOTE: The first page of text has been automatically extracted and included below in lieu of an abstract Session 2380 Introduction to SCALE-UP : Student-Centered Activities for Large Enrollment University Physics Robert J. Beichner, Jeffery…
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Plato's Four Muses: The Phaedrus and the Poetics of Philosophy Open
Plato s Four reconstructs Plato s authorial self-portrait through a fresh reading of the Phaedrus, with an Introduction and Conclusion that contextualize the construction more broadly. The Phaedrus, it is argued, is Plato s most self-refe…
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Memorabilia; Oeconomicus; Symposium; Apology Open
Xenophon (ca. 430 to ca. 354 BCE), a member of a wealthy but politically quietist Athenian family and an admirer of Socrates, left Athens in 401 BCE to serve as a mercenary commander for Cyrus the Younger of Persia, then joined the staff o…
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Thinking more wisely: using the Socratic method to develop critical thinking skills amongst healthcare students Open
Background In medicine, critical thinking is required for managing and tolerating medical uncertainty, as well as solving professional problems and treating diseases. However, the core of Confucianism, teacher-centered and exam-oriented se…
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Cues Matter: Learning Assistants Influence Introductory Biology Student Interactions during Clicker-Question Discussions Open
The cues undergraduate biology instructors provide to students before discussions of clicker questions have previously been shown to influence student discussion. We further explored how student discussions were influenced by interactions …
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The development and validation of the Blended Socratic Method of Teaching (BSMT): An instructional model to enhance critical thinking skills of undergraduate business students Open
Enhancing critical thinking skills is one of the paramount goals of many educational institutions. This study presents the development and validation of the Blended Socratic Method of Teaching (BSMT), a teaching model intended to foster cr…
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Socratic Method as an Approach to Teaching Open
In this article we presented the theoretical view of Socrates' life and his method in teaching. After the biographical facts of Socrates and his life, we explained the method he used in teaching and the two main types of his method, Classi…
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Questioning Techniques and Teachers’ Role in the Classroom Open
The aim of this study is to discuss the efficacy of questioning techniques of the teachers in the classroom. Proper questioning techniques are important in the teaching and learning process. Proper questioning techniques will make it easie…
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Clinical Teaching: An Evidence-based Guide to Best Practices from the Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors Open
Clinical teaching is the primary educational tool use to train learners from day one of medical school all the way to the completion of fellowship. However, concerns over time constraints and patient census have led to a decline in bedside…
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Plato and Xenophon Open
Plato and Xenophon are the two students of Socrates whose works have come down to us in their entirety. Their works have been studied by countless scholars over the generations; but rarely have they been brought into direct contact, outsid…
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A Research on the Effective Questioning Strategies in Class Open
As a second language, it is difficult for students to use English well, while classroom questioning is one of the most fundamental methods to promote the communication between teachers and students, so it becomes more and more important in…
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The use of the Socratic inquiry to facilitate critical thinking in nursing education Open
Socratic inquiry can be used both in education and practice settings to facilitate the use of critical thinking skills to solve problems.
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The Power of Questioning: Teacher’s Questioning Strategies in the EFL Classrooms Open
The aims of the study were to investigate English teachers’ questioning strategies at one Madrasah in Palembang, South Sumatera. The qualitative research method with a case study approach was employed to look at the ways of the English tea…
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From the Socratics to the Socratic Schools: Classical Ethics, Metaphysics and Epistemology Open
1. Plato's Representation of the 'Socratics' Voula Tsouna 2. The First-Generation Socratics and the Socratic Schools: The Case of the Cyrenaics Christopher Rowe 3. The Socratic Profile of Antisthenes' Ethics Aldo Brancacci 4. Rethinking Ae…
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Thales of Miletus: The Beginnings of Western Science and Philosophy Open
'What is the basic building block of the universe?' Thales of Miletus was the first to ask this fundamental, yet to be answered, question in the sixth century B.C. This book offers an in-depth account of the answers he gave and of his adv…
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EduChat: A Large-Scale Language Model-based Chatbot System for Intelligent Education Open
EduChat (https://www.educhat.top/) is a large-scale language model (LLM)-based chatbot system in the education domain. Its goal is to support personalized, fair, and compassionate intelligent education, serving teachers, students, and pare…
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Automatic Generation of Socratic Subquestions for Teaching Math Word Problems Open
Socratic questioning is an educational method that allows students to discover answers to complex problems by asking them a series of thoughtful questions. Generation of didactically sound questions is challenging, requiring understanding …
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Ancient Models of Mind: Studies in Human and Divine Rationality Open
How does God think? How, ideally, does a human mind function? Must a gap remain between these two paradigms of rationality? Such questions exercised the greatest ancient philosophers, including those featured in this book: Socrates, Plato,…
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Philosophy for Education: Towards Human Agency Open
This paper considers the contribution of philosophy to education. First, a case is made that the fundamental goal of education is to cultivate human agency in the sense of being able to enact one’s freedom (as opposed to conditioned and ha…
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The Research on Strategies of College English Teachers Classroom Questioning Open
Questioning is one of the most frequently used strategies in classroom teaching, as well as the most influential teaching skill. It is a useful way for teachers to output information, to convey information and to obtain feedback from stude…
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Philosophy of Liberal Education: The Principles Open
This article lays out systematically the principles of modern liberal philosophy of education by explicating the foundations of the Humboldtian (European) model of liberal education. Conceived over two centuries ago, those foundations have…
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Socratic dialogue as a teaching and research method for co-creativity? Open
We sketch a theory of creativity which centres on the framing of activity by repetitive thinking and action, and sees creativity as divergences from these routines which is thereby framed against them. Without a repetitive frame creativity…
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The Importance of Understanding Each Other in Philosophy Open
What is philosophy? How is it possible? This essay constitutes an attempt to contribute to a better understanding of what might be a good answer to either of these questions by reflecting on one particular characteristic of philosophy, spe…
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Reflection: A Socratic approach Open
Reflection is a fuzzy concept. In this article we reveal the paradoxes involved in studying the nature of reflection. Whereas some scholars emphasize its discursive nature, we go further and underline its resemblance to the self-biased dia…
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Contemporary Psychology Open
Exam paper for second semester 2021
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Medicine and Healing in the Pre-Socratic Thought - A Brief Analysis of Magic and Rationalism in Ancient Herbal Therapy Open
Background: Medicine has gone through many schools of thought before arriving in the version we see in our world today. In the beginning, it was based on religion, superstition, and magic plants for therapy. This approach was practiced for…
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Pedagogies of the futures: Shifting the educational paradigms Open
Focusing on an educational paradigm rooted in critical pedagogy, the socratic method, futures studies, and peace education, this essay takes the position that classrooms of the future should be transformed into safe harbors where students …
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ChatGPT as a tool for honing teachers’ Socratic dialogue skills Open
In this proof-of-concept paper, we propose a specific kind of pedagogical use of ChatGPT—to help teachers practice their Socratic dialogue skills. We follow up on the previously published paper ‘ChatGPT and the frustrated Socrates’ by re-e…