Posts Tagged ‘students’
Introducing Cognitive Diversity to Purdue Students
Purdue students have a difficult time with team assignments. Too often, unproductive members of the team drag down productivity and increase the frustration of other members. Until now, Purdue faculty have not had a systematic approach to providing students with the skills to manage complex collaborations. The AEM-Cube(TM) – developed by our European colleagues at Human…
Read MoreStrategic Diversity Assessments for Students in the School of Engineering Technology
Collaboration involves a complex basket of skills. No individual is equally proficient in all of them. Indeed, we migrate toward our comfort zone. The challenge, of course, involves understanding how we can measure and communicate the strategic diversity within a team. To help us solve this challenge, we reached out to Human Insight, a company…
Read MoreTeaching high school students the deep skills of collaboration
Over the last few week’s we’ve worked with two high schools: Applied Technical High School in, Bergen County, NJ and the Purdue Polytechnic High School in Indianapolis. In both cases, faculty members are using Strategic Doing to develop innovative programming. Both schools are also beginning to consider how we can move the discipline into the curriculum.…
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