The Sorting Hat as a teaching method

[David <dfrankiswork@netscape.net>]

Kristjan Arnason wrote:

>  I took them all [i.e. students] to
> the computer room and went to the Warner Brothers
> harry Potter site, and had them all take the Sorting
> Hat test.  With the exception of the two best students
> in the class (there were 8 students total) they all
> did the test in Korean.  It has language options.
> 
> Anyhow,  the test put two students into each house. 

and

> The thing is, the kids started to assume personalities
> appropiate to their houses.  

Fascinating.  It's tempting to repeat the exercise, but with the 
house affiliations done completely randomly.  Would the same thing 
happen?

There's a main list point here.  Elkins?  Something about that 
horrible Hat and the horrible competitive house system?

David