Last week I described the Interactivity Foundation’s discussion process as flowing through roughly three stages: generating questions, generating diverse responses to those questions, and then revising those responses by exploring some of their implications or possible consequences. We don’t think… Read More »
Monthly Archives: June 2009
Getting the Process Started
Our focus in the blog and in the Summer Institute is on exploring connections between the Interactivity Foundation’s “sanctuary discussion process” and the classroom. In earlier postings I’ve talked about the character of our approach to collaborative and exploratory discussions… Read More »
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My Young Friend, Jay Stern
I’d like to offer a brief word of farewell to commemorate the passing of a dear friend and mentor, Jay Stern. Jay passed away this past Saturday, June 13, 2009. He was 95 (you can find Read More »
What are Sanctuary Discussions?
In the Interactivity Foundation (IF) we often talk about “sanctuary discussions” or “the IF discussion process” in pretty interchangeable ways. In this post I’ll describe some of the key features of of what we mean by calling them sanctuary discussions.… Read More »
Thinking AND Making, "Shop Class as Soulcraft"
One major impetus for using IF’s approach to student-centered discussions is to engage students in more active, and interactive, learning in the classroom. It’s a way to connect thinking and doing, or thinking and making, since it requires the students to… Read More »
What is it that you do do?
Forgive me my nod to Austin Powers (and Inspector Clouseau before him), but I realize you might find yourself wondering just what is it that we do in the Interactivity Foundation (IF). The Summer Institute will focus on exploring connections… Read More »
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Conceptual Background on IF
I’m uploading here a series of “Conceptual Essays” on IF and our approach to public discussion.
The essays complement our other more hands-on documents by placing our work in a larger context and exploring the reasoning behind why we do… Read More »
Looking forward to August
Let me add my hearty “Welcome to the ’09 Summer Institute!” to those already expressed by Jeff, Pete, and Sue. I’m very much looking forward to the week, all the more so after reading your bio’s.
Here’s hoping your summer… Read More »
Tacit Knowledge vs. Intellectual Technologies
There’s an interesting section on “Thinking as Doing” in Matthew Crawford’s Shop Class as Soulcraft that can help shed light on what we’re trying to convey in our approach to collaborative and developmental discussions (my earlier post on Read More »
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