Socratic method

Is this genuinely a good task for me to, use the AI for.

Presumably there's also some qualitative decision around how I'm using the AI, right? You know, the, the, you know, using it in a, I mean, everybody, everybody keeps talking about, well, you know, use it, use a Socratic kind of questioning model and use it to challenge your ideas.

Are you seeing people actually do that a lot?

Yeah, in some cases, I think.

And we do sometimes need a pre-evangelism that sort of prepares the ground And one of the things I talk about in my Plato book is what is the difference between Socrates and Plato? People have different theories, but my belief is what Socrates did is he came along and cleaned the ground.

He, reading the early Socratic dialogues, which I think are very much Socrates as opposed to later ones, which are very much Plato, like the Republic and the Phaedo and the Phaedrus and the Timaeus and all that.

The early ones, They always start with, what is your definition of courage or the colors, the beauty, the fine, or your definition of friendship? And then Socrates spends the whole dialogue destroying and showing that that's a false, usually it's a false definition because it's not universal enough.

It just tells me this, but it doesn't tell me this.

And that is preparing us.

The other thing that Socrates and Plato did that's important for Christians is they brought together metaphysics and ethics.

There were lots of pre-Socratic philosophers talking about metaphysics and but they weren't as interested in ethics in the real world.

Then there were others like Stoics that were very ethical, but not very metaphysical.

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I use the Socratic review method with my students for every question you missed.

Everyone you got right but weren't sure about, you explain out loud why the right answer is right, why each wrong answer is wrong, until you can teach it to the person next to you.

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You will use LSAC's new format tests as they come out, fill in the other weeks with full tests that you will build for yourself in the new order.

I use the Socratic review method with my students for every question you missed.

Everyone you got right but weren't sure about, you explain out loud why the right answer is right, why each wrong answer is wrong, until you can teach it to the person next to you.

I've also put together a free LSAT cheat sheet to help you jumpstart your LSAT prep.

There's so much good stuff.

I congratulated him on being so Socratic.

He did laugh at that jokelessness.

Turns out he knew Socrates, if nothing else.

And so we are using our knowledge of cognitive science in order to help move our instruction forward for our students.

At the six to 12 realm, this really made a lot of sense in student academic discourse, Socratic seminars, student discussions.

You'll hear about more of that from the people who are the experts at the table here.

Awesome.

Is there some way, does that enter into this in any way, is I guess my question.

Yeah, it definitely does.

I think there's a continuum of routines and strategies that the teachers are choosing from the simple routines that we repeat like the cold calling to a Socratic seminar, which is a big organized thing that you do in a circle with text and with high school students often, I think middle school does it too.

Even some of the simple things like a show me board, a white board that I've seen math teachers use at the beginning for the first 10 minutes where kids are in pairs and there's a problem up on the board and they're working it out and then they're cued to, thank you, then they're cued to work with their partner on it and correct it and then show the teacher.

One of the things we're doing to tie these different threads together that we've talked about, Julius, is actually give kids neurofeedback on when their attention is too much focused on what the LLM is telling them and not internally focused enough to help them keep that balance so that their attention can be focused on their own thinking even while they work with AI.

Yeah, the one thing I advise everyone when working with AI, if they still want to learn something and actually take something away from their session with ChatGPT or Cloud or whatever, is something that is called Socratic learning.

So by doing this, you basically tell the AI, you ask me questions and let me learn.

formulate my words and come to my own conclusions.

We were just

talking about one of the mini apps that was built by a Network State community member, the Socratic one that bought the bias one, which I love.

I love it.

The critical thinking, tapping into critical thinking.