Presenter:
Nazik Roufaiel, Cornell University
Nora Fadl, Rockland Community College
Description:
The presentation focuses on the power of using Taxonomy of Socratic questions and online education as a fertile environment to promote corporate learning. The role of skilled teacher is to keep class discussion on track and let students become self-learners through continuous inquiry. There is a need to change the traditional lectures, quizzes, and tests to let students grasp the abundance of knowledge available from various resources including their expertise. The skilled and well-trained educator should act as a facilitator who invokes discussion, which motivates students to look for answers to raised questions. Students should be motivated and induced to seek and provide new knowledge to each other. The hierarchy of questions posed by the learning group does not necessarily follow a certain pattern in the traditional sense. Follow Taxonomy of Socratic by creating questions that probe reasons and evidence, questions of clarification: questions that probe assumptions, questions that bring viewpoints and perspectives, and questions that reflect implications and consequences proved to be more valuable in learning strategy. There is a need to refine our education and training systems to bridge the gap between the traditional learning and Corporate Learning as Socratic Art of education. The most effective way to teach students new skills is to put them in a situation to use their skills and act in a simulated story.
