For those of you teaching an IF sponsored course this spring, your second blog post should focus on the ways you are providing feedback and guidance to your students, whether as discussion facilitators or as discussion participants. As you think… Read More »
Author Archives: Jeff Prudhomme
Picking at the Glue and Possibilities for Innovation
In his novel So Yesterday, Scott Westerfeld explores questions about innovation, about how the new can come into society, and about how the next cool thing can become yesterday’s news in the steady advance of consumer culture. The book deals… Read More »
How are you setting up your student discussion groups?
For those of you teaching an IF sponsored course this spring (2010), we’d like you to post blog entries at least 4 times during the semester in which you reflect upon and share some of your course experiences. We hope… Read More »
Jobs and the Future of a College Education?
What is the future of a college education in the USA? The recent economic downturn seems to have sharpened the already well-known trend toward seeing a college education largely in terms of enhancing one’s economic security. And as our uncertain… Read More »
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Little Things That Count: A Human Scale of Discussion
When people are invited to take part in one of the Interactivity Foundation’s Public Discussions they often wonder what effect this could have if we meet with just a small group of citizens, perhaps just six or seven people, in… Read More »
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Reflections and Proposals
For all the participants in our recent Summer Institute, I hope you find yourself settling back into your lives–and discovering new ideas and insights as these percolate up from the last week or so. After an intensive endeavor like the… Read More »
Talent is Liquified Trouble
In his 2005 documentary entitled Sketches of Frank Gehry… Read More » the filmmaker Sydney Pollock commented that one of his own mentors told him that “talent is liquefied trouble.” Pollock mentions this in part to convey that there was some struggle that
Attitudes of Discussion
Picture for a moment two very different kinds of citizen “discussions” that took place this summer. Both were focused on issues surrounding health and healthcare in our society. For the first, you might think of any of a number of… Read More »
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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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Integrating Course Content?
For those of you teaching an IF sponsored course this spring, your third blog post should share some of your thinking about and experiences with integrating your course content into a student-centered discussion class. You might find it helpful to… Read More »
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