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    1. 🅐🅩🅛‏ @aaronzlewis 30 Jul 2019
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      i feel like most ppl in theory agree that the lecture is a dead pedagogical tool and yet every conference i go to still plays the ‘important person on stage’ vs. ‘listeners in seats’ game i’m curious who’s experimenting with new interior design for new types of conversation

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Jul 2019
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      I’ve been hearing the tired slurs against “sage on a stage” model for 20+ years. Only leftist education ideologues with more abstract ideas than communications experience take them seriously. Person on stage is just a method like any other. Good for some things, not for others.

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Jul 2019
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      If anything, it is the oppressively authoritarian attempts to impose “approved” methods ranging from discussions and small groups to fishbowls and “learning style” (did not replicate) models that have lost credibility.

      2 replies 1 retweet 16 likes
    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Jul 2019
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      The thing is authority derived from actual asymmetric information and skills can not be wished away. And otoh you cannot force people to authority derived from ideologies seriously whenembodied by morons.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Jul 2019
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      It’s best to treat communication model choices as engineering problems, while remaining aware of latent power dynamics in them. Treating them as pure ideological choices divorced from functional and informational context is dumb in a way only party apparatchiks can love.

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        2. @micahstubbs‏ @micahstubbs 30 Jul 2019
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          I think lecture format gets less useful when the power distance between the speaker and the audience is too small. this often happens when bright students meet someone teaching "by the book" or "from the test"

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        3. @micahstubbs‏ @micahstubbs 30 Jul 2019
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          from a conference organizer POV, you want to pick speakers with that real authority derived from deep domain experience. match the power distance to the format.

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