All of the IF Fellows will participate in the 8th National Conference on Dialogue & Deliberation. It will take place in Denver, Colorado, November 2-4, 2018. IF has participated in NCDD conferences over the years and we found them a great place to form...
The Interactivity Foundation partnered with the National Building Museum (NBM) to train summer camp councilors how to use IF’s interactive small group exploratory discussion method in their upcoming summer camp. Lauren Wilson, Teen Programs Manager at the NBM,...
For the second summer, we met online with several faculty members who are teaching their courses using IF’s discussion method and/or discussion guides. We began by talking about IF courses that were taught in the 2017-2018 academic year, but then focused on...
IF has recently trained youth leadership teams in using IF’s small group discussion method for Youth Creativity Summits in New York and D.C. Loree Goffigon is the organizer of these summits. Here we would like to share with you her wonderful description of these...
The Joan Mitchell Foundation is one of our partners this year. In case you're wondering, Joan Mitchell was a leading American abstract expressionist painter. The eponymous foundation is based in NYC and it celebrates her legacy in various ways, including...
IF will conduct a two day exploration of the future of free speech at John Seigenthaler Center, Vanderbilt University, in Nashville, Tennessee, on February 23-24, 2018. These small group roundtable discussions will explore questions and concerns that people might...
We were delighted that Professor Philip Benesch brought thirteen of his students from Lebanon Valley College, Annville, PA, to the IF-Newseum Institute event about the future of public discussion. The students joined eleven small group round table discussions that...
This summer we launched IF’s Learning Circles for Faculty, a series of an hour-long small group online discussions about IF’s teaching method and student-centered classroom discussions courses in general. We invited faculty members who have used or would like to...
Did you know that you can engage with the Interactivity Foundation in almost daily explorations of various questions and concerns about public policy once you connect with us via social media: Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn? Several IF Fellows regularly share...
Update: We have just learned that a water pipe recently burst at the Georgetown Library and flooded the room in which we had scheduled our discussions. The library is closed as a result, and it is not yet clear when it will reopen. Consequently, we are postponing...
