(2017-03-24) Caulfield The Power Of Explaining To Others

Mike Caulfield: The Power of Explaining to Others. When we argue we become dumber, more blind to our own lack of knowledge and logical inconsistencies.

I liked peer instruction (Peeragogy). In the peer instruction methodology, students have to explain how things work to other students — and in the process they realize that they have no fricking clue what they are talking about (even though they were dead sure they understood it twenty seconds before).

And now my answer to the Post-Truth crisis? It’s to have students explain things

Explaining things to a teacher becomes just another test. Explaining things to people on the internet — especially where, as is the case with wiki, they can edit you — that’s the sort of stakes that forces some self-examination.