In 2004 the inventor Saul Griffith, then young grad student at MIT, won the prestigious Lemelson-MIT prize, based in part on his invention of desktop device to manufacture inexpensive eyeglass...

If you’re thinking about taking part in one of our Sanctuary Discussion Projects, you might wonder about the directions the discussions might take. You might wonder whether the discussion Facilitator,...

When many faculty hear the term “student-centered discussion,” they imagine students leading a “discussion” that is really just a bull session.  In fact, this is typically the sort of discussion...

Before moving on to describe the third stage of the discussion process (where we look at the potential real-world implications of the possibilities in order to consolidate and revise them),...

Our focus in the blog and in the Summer Institute is on exploring connections between the Interactivity Foundation's "sanctuary discussion process" and the classroom.  In earlier postings I've talked about...