[DanBC]

One thing that people are trying is to just pick people to answer questions. They don't ask a question and let some one who wants to answer to answer it, they ask the question and them pick someone to answer it. This means you learn from the people who don't normally answer whether they understand or not and you understand where they don't understand.

It needs some shift of expectations. Not knowing the answer to a question is fine and being allowed to say, in fromt of a bunch of people, that you don't understand is a good thing.

[trentmb]

> One thing that people are trying is to just pick people to answer questions.

Had a professor for my analysis class that stated he'd never seen regular class attendance drop as quick as when he tried doing this.

As a slower student, I definitely had a tendency to skip these sort of classes and just go to office hours.

Just an amusing anecdote!

[ihnorton]

Isn't this one of the oldest educational strategies in the book? Or has it somehow gone out of favor? Nearly every education-related movie has a scene of the teacher specifically picking students to answer questions (often the slacker-protagonist).

[alasdair_]

This is the standard in any business school that teaches using the case method.