Comments on: Choosing the Next Question /blog_archive/2016/03/04/choosing-the-next-question/ iteration, making, building, and coding in education Fri, 04 Mar 2016 00:34:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.6 By: Evan Weinberg /blog_archive/2016/03/04/choosing-the-next-question/#comment-423 Fri, 04 Mar 2016 00:34:16 +0000 http://evanweinberg.com/?p=2388#comment-423 In reply to annablinstein.

I totally agree – the question that comes next doesn’t need to be another question on content. Having that dialogue with the students is likely more informative than another problem.

]]> By: annablinstein /blog_archive/2016/03/04/choosing-the-next-question/#comment-422 Fri, 04 Mar 2016 00:30:21 +0000 http://evanweinberg.com/?p=2388#comment-422 I think that the other big advantage human teachers have over adaptive software is that we can ask, “how did you do this problem?” or “why did you do this first?” or “can you make up a problem similar to this one that would be easier/harder for you?” or a host of other questions that unpack students’ thinking and that give us information we can use to create follow-up questions and problems that will challenge the student or allow a misconception to be brought out more clearly. The software only knows that the answer was right or wrong, and that’s significantly less information (I’m not even counting the wealth of information the teacher likely has about the student’s prior work and thinking, disposition towards math, and how to motivate him or her).

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