There are 3 focal areas for our activities in the Summer Institute: 1) learning the discussion process, 2) connecting this process to the classroom, and 3) connecting this process to discussions beyond the classroom walls in “citizen discussions.” In this… Read More »
Monthly Archives: July 2009
What We've Learned from Citizen Discussion
IF discussion reports resulting from sanctuary discussion projects have been the “raw material” for dozens of organized citizen discussions over the last several years. The basic idea is that it is helpful for citizen discussions to have “starting points”, particularly… Read More »
Other Things to Do in Madison
Hey Everyone, here is my updated listing of “Other Things to do in Madison”.
Other Activities – alpha listing… Read More »
I’ll be sending you individual emails next week just to confirm arrival times and airport transport (if applicable).
I hope everyone
Summer Institute Activities: Educational Connections
So, what kinds of things will we be doing at the Summer Institute? In last week’s posting, I noted that we’ll have 3 major focal areas: 1) learning the discussion process from the inside, 2) course development and connecting the… Read More »
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The Story of Thomas, Developing Social Confidence
My colleague Jack Byrd has decades of experience teaching discussion facilitation at WVU’s School of Engineering. I’ve asked him to share some of his observations and stories about student experiences with discussion facilitation. I offered to post this material for… Read More »
Our Activities at the Summer Institute
Over the past several weeks, I’ve been walking you through the different stages of our discussion process. Now I’d like to focus on how we’ll work on this in our upcoming Summer Institute. Recently my colleague Pete Shively posted a… Read More »
Travel Planning & Other Logistics
To: 2009 Summer Institute Faculty & Participating IF Fellows
Re: Travel Planning & Other Logistics.
Hey everyone, I’m about to take off for meetings in West Virginia for a couple of days, but I wanted to get this update out… Read More »
Exploring Consequences to Revise Possibilities
Over the last several weeks I’ve been describing the Interactivity Foundation’s approach to discussions in terms of three interactive stages. In previous entries I covered stage one (developing questions to describe the area of concern) and stage two (developing policy … Read More »
Lauren's Story
The entry below is another story from my colleague Jack Byrd about student experiences with a student-centered discussion class. It might help you think about the ways that discussion facilitation differs from making an oral presentation. You might also think… Read More »
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