Teaching the Socratic Method to a Chatbot: Coaching Students Through LLM-Assisted Reading
How coaches can turn a chatbot into a questioning partner for hard readings, instead of a summary machine.
Students reach for a chatbot to summarize the reading. Coaches can redirect that habit: set the bot up to ask questions back, not hand over answers.
The move
Have the student prompt the tool to act as a Socratic partner: ask one question at a time about the passage, and wait for the student's answer before going further.
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