March 5, 2018 Walk Out, or Walk In? By: Marc Erlbaum, founder of the Common Party Originally posted on Medium and re-posted here with the author's permission. In the wake of the Parkland shooting, millions of people around the...
September 28, 2017 Building Merrill Together – Update Residents of Merrill, Wisconsin are continuing to talk with, and listen to, and increasingly work with each other. As described in our prior April blog post about the “Building Merrill...
April 27, 2017 IF Discussions Inspire Community Discussion Program Residents of Merrill, Wisconsin are talking and listening—a lot these days about a wide variety of community and regional concerns. The monthly community discussion program entitled “Building Merrill Together” began...
December 29, 2016 We DID It! Diversity and Inclusion Discussions at Wesleyan College By: Melanie Doherty, Ph.D. Associate Professor of English and Faculty Diversity Liaison, Wesleyan College, Macon, GA With guidance from a pair of campus co-directors and the support of the Interactivity Foundation (IF),...
December 29, 2016 A Few Lessons from “Post-Election” Discussion It is often the case that public interest in IF discussion guidebooks waxes and wanes based on current events and media focus. So it probably should not come as any...
December 31, 2015 Educating Community Facilitators, The K-State Experience As the semester winds down, I am almost ready to reflect on my experience teaching Leadership in Practice at Kansas State University. As a fellow in residence in the Staley...
June 22, 2015 Dennis Boyer’s Book Review : The Ecology of Democracy: Finding Ways to Have a Stronger Hand in Shaping Our Future Dennis Boyer's Book Review : The Ecology of Democracy: Finding Ways to Have a Stronger Hand in Shaping Our Future, Kettering Foundation Press, Dayton, Ohio, 2014 - By David Mathews One sizeable shelf in...
April 2, 2015 Now Available: What IF…Discussion Card Game What IF….Discussion Cards A Card Game that Improves Explorative and Collaborative Thinking Check out the Interactivity Foundation’s new discussion cards! They can be used in classrooms, workplace meetings, or even at...
January 20, 2015 Spotlight on IF Fellow Mark Notturno 2014 was an extraordinary year for IF Fellow and philosopher Mark Amadeus Notturno. During the course of the year, he published his seventh book entitled Hayek and Popper: On Rationality, Economism, and...
October 9, 2012 Is Our Democracy Out Of Date? Interactivity Foundation The United States Democratic Promise Public Policy Discussion at 1st Presidential Debate It was a wonderful occasion. People arrived and introduced themselves to each other. You could feel the anticipation. Everyone...
September 13, 2012 NO MORE TEACHERS, NO MORE BOOKS, NO MORE TEACHER’S DIRTY LOOKS…. This policy discussion was centered around The Future of K-12 Education. The conversation started off with a general discussion of educational reform. From that prompt, the participants seemed to touch...
February 1, 2012 What’s Your ‘Fair Share’? It’s common sense that billionaires should pay their fair share of taxes. Everyone should agree to that. It follows a fortiori, as people in the logic business say, from the idea...
