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Technology Killed Socrates

Usha Rodrigues notes that the proliferation of laptops in the classroom means that “students inherit “scripts” from prior classes, and thus are primed with the “right answers” to the professor’s questions.” Of course, students with laptops often (depending on the availability of internet or intranet connections, text each other answers.

Increasingly, if you want to stick to the outdated and absurd Socratic method, you not only have to be a pedagogic fogey but a technology luddite.