Over the last year or so, I have had numerous conversations with faculty using the IF method in the classroom and lamenting that, too often, it is difficult to get their students to go deeper and think harder when engaging… Read More »
Author Archives: Sue Goodney Lea
How have your group dynamics been working?
Last post, I asked you to talk about the criteria and process you used to set up your student groups. This time, now several weeks in, I’d like you to reflect upon how well the group set-ups you created are… Read More »
Teaching Communication Skills to Students– Resources
If you click on the hyperlinks, the file will download onto your computer (check your Downloads file).
Evaluation Rubrics — Allow students to assess their communication skills
Communications Exercise — Provides an opportunity for students to think about… Read More »
How are you setting up student groups in your IF class?
For those of you teaching an IF sponsored course this Fall (2010) semester, we’d like you to post blog entries at least 4 times during the semester. We invite you to use these blog posts to reflect upon and share… Read More »
Not So Benign a Conflict
As our nation celebrates Independence Day, I am reminded that much of American history is based in conflict. The crucible within which we forged our independence was a war fought mightily against a more powerful enemy, anchored in the energy… Read More »
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Is the iPad and other technology killing our democracy?
President Obama recently suggested that it might be:
“With iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations — none of which I know how to work –
information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool… Read More »
Practical Tip: Which easel works best for facilitating discussions?
I bought my first IF easel about a year or so ago, and the plastic “bolt” that secures the extended
leg broke recently. That easel cost $100, and it only lasted a year– very disappointing. I found
another easel at… Read More »
At-Risk Students = Most At-Risk to Exploitation by the 21st C. Academy?
The most recent edition of Frontline offers an exceedingly disturbing look at the for-profit
college world. The people who are driving this world brazenly talk on the record about what
a wonderful world this is. Their greed… Read More »
Make Your Own Path
Apple Co-Founder Steve Jobs died this week, and there’s been a lot of talk about his life and his work. This was clearly a man who knew what he wanted and went out and got it (or, in his case,… Read More »
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