Creativity
We had a wonderful F2F about interdisciplinary conversations last week!
One of the (many) conversations we had was about creativity–how you inspire
your students to stimulate creativity. Is it really something you can teach?
I think creativity can be taught, you can help your students open their eyes
to the world around them and connect the dots of what they are seeing.
Themocracy
I’ve been reading a small pamphlet entitled, “Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education” by Arthur W. Chickering and Zelda F. Gamson. They write about the topic of Learning Communities, “Students involved in SUNY at Stony Brook’s Federal Learning Communities can take several courses together. The courses typically relate to a common topic them such as science, technology and human values. Faculty teaching the courses coordinate their activities while another faculty member, called a ‘master learner’ takes the courses with the students. Under the Direction of the master learner, students run a seminar which helps them integrate ideas from the separate courses.” Anyone interested in exploring this possibility at FIT? I plan on bringing it up for discussion at our next meeting.
Deborah-
I think this is an amazing idea. I could really see this working with a topic like sustainability or technology where we have multiple areas in A&D – developing courses that integrate different aspects of this topic….I would love to work on something like this.
sandra