March 17, 2021 Overcoming Skepticism Professor Clorinda Delgado couldn’t believe what she was overhearing from the discussion groups she had set up in class. She had asked her class to discuss their views of Paul...
March 11, 2021 Just Imagine…Opening the World Doctors who delivered Michael Cusack advised his mother not to look at him. They suggested that she send him to an institution where children with Down syndrome were cared for....
March 10, 2021 Types and Sequencing of Discussion Questions Professor Jens Sigmund had used class discussions in is courses for years. He noticed that the way he framed questions had a major impact on the success of the discussions....
March 4, 2021 Just Imagine…a Transformational Society Charley was devastated. He had lost both his wife and young son in a car crash when a drunk driver ran through an intersection. Charley was angry and despondent. That...
March 3, 2021 An Unplanned Second Facilitator Sandra (“don’t call me Sandy”) was a classic Type-A personality. She could be a real pain as a project partner because she was constantly bugging her partners to improve their...
February 25, 2021 Just Imagine…Negative Capability February 23, 2021 is the 200th anniversary of the death of the poet John Keats. Many of us studied his poems “Ode on a Grecian Urn” and “Ode to a Nightingale”....
February 24, 2021 Rusty Bucket Ideas It was a sad day, the kind that many of us have experienced. Jake Sinclair had died and his family was cleaning his home and farm before it was to...
February 18, 2021 Just Imagine…Accepting our Differences Maya Lin grew up in Athens, Ohio. Her parents emigrated to the United States from China, but Maya was born in the US. Maya never thought much about her cultural heritage growing...
February 17, 2021 Questioning the Givens When students entered Dr. Anita Sherwood’s class she handed each of them a tennis ball. “We are going to do a simple demonstration today. I want each group to form...