A couple weeks ago, I facilitated a public discussion on Anticipating Genetic Technology with a group of individuals residing in the borough of Queens in New York City, and I wanted to comment on how different the process was from… Read More »
Tag Archives: learning by doing
Keeping Things Under Control, or Not
“This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we’ll be lucky to live through it.” Admiral Josh Painter in Tom Clancy’s The Hunt for the Red October.
“The creative process is a process… Read More »
We Are the Books our Students Read Most Closely
How might educators teach students to engage as active participants and facilitators in student-centered discussions? How might contemporary higher education classrooms become places for the discovery and social construction of alternative ways of thinking and acting in regard to complex… Read More »
Exercising the Civic Muscle
Colleague Jeff Prudhomme and I spent this last weekend in Cincinnati, Ohio at the Central States Communication Association Conference at the invitation of 2009 Summer Institute participant Professor Laura Black. We were there to participate in a “beyond the town… Read More »
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Learning and the IF Discussion Process
Earlier last year, I came across a striking passage in a book on how computer “games” should be re-shaping education.
One needn’t be familiar with the specifics of the game mentioned in the passage’s first sentence to follow the author’s… Read More »
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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 »
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 »
Wiki Discussions?
One of the new possibilities we’ve been exploring at the Interactivity Foundation is the use of wikis for the discussion and development of material. We’ve set up a general wiki site, the Interactivity Foundation Wiki as… Read More »
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