July 22, 2021 Olympic Fever, Are You Feeling It–or Are You Feeling Something Else? The Tokyo Olympics are here! So are you feeling that Olympic fever? Or are you feeling a bit uneasy about the whole idea of having the pandemic-delayed Games in a...
July 22, 2021 Just Imagine…Accepting Innovation In 1914, Bessie Blount was born in Hickory, Virginia. When she started elementary school, her teacher rapped her knuckles for writing lefthanded. Bessie had to learn to use her right...
July 21, 2021 Contradictions in Discussions Professor Dorothy Hamlin was concerned that her in-class discussions had become too superficial. Students were not exploring issues from different perspectives. Perhaps this should be expected since her university tended...
July 16, 2021 Could Technology Support & Enhance Our Democracy? A discussion summary for the third and final session of an online exploratory discussion series on Technology & Democracy In this third and final session of our small group conversation series...
July 15, 2021 Just Imagine…Taking the Long View Barbara McClintock was a geneticist who did much of her work with maize, or what we in the US commonly call "corn." Because maize has a far longer generational cycle...
July 14, 2021 Facilitating Curiosity Jordan Carper began her class by asking students to write down on a sheet of paper three things they were curious about. She asked this question because she believed that...
July 8, 2021 Just Imagine…Water, Water Everywhere, but Not a Drop to Drink It was one of the worst water crises in America, but it got very little attention. In 2014, 7,500 gallons of a highly toxic chemical leaked from a one-inch hole...
July 7, 2021 Collaboration Agreements “Next class, we’ll be starting the first of our small-group discussions”, so began Dr. Sophia Newsome. “I know that many of you have had past experiences with group work that weren't...
July 6, 2021 Technology & Democracy, and Privacy and more–a discussion summary for session 2 of an online exploratory discussion series In this second session of our small group conversation series on Technology & Democracy, citizens from around the country gathered online via Zoom for an exploratory discussion of several key...