stimulant

Normally, I’d just bookmark this, but I want to draw special attention to it:

The most important thing any educator can impart to a student, in any context, is the ability to teach themselves. When teachers dispense knowledge to students in the traditional lecture format — where students passively watch and listen — they deny students deep interaction with the subject matter. Furthermore, instructor-centered pedagogy assumes and reinforces the debilitating notion that education can only happen in the presence of a superior: You (the student) need me (the teacher) in order to learn.

Socratic Electronics is a collection of questions about electronics that is nicely written, thoroughly indexed, and well-illustrated. Unfortunately, they’re designed as worksheets, currently; however, there’s a wealth of information there — and the teacher has implemented them as a framework for getting students to ask questions of each other¹ and answer them.

via MAKEzine :: Socratic Electronics

1. rather than the often douchey “I know the answer but I’m not going to tell you” feeling that cumbersome “Socratics” frequently evoke [↩]