Learning by Seeing

with guest facilitator Jessica Riehl

This workshop is designed for participants to rotate in and out on the hour — plan to stay for all, or just join when you can! 

Our classrooms are supposed to provide methods for sense-making — a task that is increasingly complicated by a world that simply doesn't make sense. We may need new ways to help our students organize their thoughts and to help them participate in knowledge production, especially if students' own learning or processing skills do not benefit from traditional classroom pedagogies. This workshop introduces faculty to visual thinking. Visual thinking can offer new ways for instructors to engage students in substantively difficult conversations by allowing for collaborative work, visual exploration, and systems-thinking.  

Hour one: An overview of visual and systems thinking   Hour two: Three easy techniques for visual thinking   Hour three: Common systems thinking models  

Hosted by Provost Teaching Fellow Alison Gash