I've been corresponding on Facebook about the Eric Mazur peer instruction approach with a parent. I've been working with her autistic son over the past year, and she was the one who guided me to the YouTube lecture (kind of ironic that we got inspired by a lecture that is against lecturing). So far:
PRAMILA: Focusing on another topic that is dear to me now, I am very inspired by Prof Muzur's talk. Yesterday at 12:43pm
LARS: This was fantastic, Pramila. Loved this: "The lecture method is a process whereby the lecture notes of the instructor get transferred to the notebooks of the students without passing through the brains of either." Yesterday at 7:26pm
PRAMILA: Amazing talk, isnt it? There should be a simplified way to adapt the approach of discussion for our kids. 11 hours ago
LARS: I agree. I think the key elements of the approach are: 1) ask a conceptual (rather than content) question with choices for the answer, 2) prompt learners to silently consider which answer they would would choose and to marshall arguments to back up that choice, and 3) talk to other learners to see whose choice is most persuasive. That's a process that seems adaptable, don't you think? 7 minutes ago
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