PLATO: FROM SOCRATES TO PRE-SOCRATICS?

Socrates and Plato on Poetry

SOCRATES: from SOCial Relation to ATtitude ExpressionS

To be perceived as believable partners in human-machine interactions, virtual agents have to express adequate social attitudes. The social attitude expressed by an agent should reflect the social situation of the interaction. The agent ought to take into account its role and its social relation toward its interactants when deciding how to react in the interaction. To build such an agent able to...

From Socrates to Satellites: iPad Learning in an Undergraduate Course

Finding, evaluating and using information are necessary skills for the 21 century college student to engage in critical thinking and problem-solving. This qualitative study was conducted during the fall of 2011 at a major research institution in an undergraduate face-to-face course entitled Multicultural Education. Professors designed a course to practice these skills outside and inside the cla...

From Socrates to PIAGET: Patterns for Distance Learning

Millenniums ago, Socrates established the basis for philosophy today, only by using criticism to set up concepts and rules discussing them with his disciples. This approach, named Socratic Method, has also proved to be a teaching-learning strategy. Nowadays, even though web-based, collaborative Distance Learning systems are becoming industry standards for representation and deployment of online...

23 : Peer review : some questions from Socrates

Editor of scientific journal: I never expected to bump into you in Tavistock Square, Socrates. But I'm pleased to see you, because I have a perplexing problem that I'd like to discuss. Socrates: I shall do my best. Editor: You know, of course, that scientific papers submitted to journals are usually sent out for peer review? Socrates: Such a system was never used in Athens. But I think you refe...