Summer Institute 2014: Day 2
Session 1 – Community Read: The New Jim Crow
• Community Read
Session 2 - Sim CEO – Using Gaming / Simulation Software in the Classroom (Michael
Greenwood, Audrey Pereira)
• Why use simulations?
o Role-playing
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Ability to fail in real time and begin again, learning from mistakes
Already using: surgical, military, business
Capsim: extremely rigorous simulations
Success comes from practice/training in real-life situations (authentic tasks)
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Deep practice: you cannot get good at anything without
Muscle movement=response to the firing of a neuron/Recalled memory and
solved problems=neurons firing
▪ Speed with which neurons fire much faster with practice (untrained neurons vs.
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Ordinary practice vs. deep practice
What is deep practice? Lots of repetition, mistakes, feedback (unless they fail,
we do not learn)
▪ Students need to be convinced of this
▪ Characteristics:
▪ Half an hour to three hours a day
▪ Practice correctly
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trained ones)
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Outcomes Assessment in Business
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NEASC-approved
IACBE wanted program-level assessment vs. course-level assessment
Streamline process by collecting data at end of program through simulation and
case studies
Closing the gap by using the data to improve learning after sharing with department
Simulation used in capstone course
Graded on: how well work as team (information/instrument within Capsim), application
(preliminary activity), presentation (simulated board meeting), self-assessment,
participation
▪ Failure of business is not a part of that grading
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Session 3 - The Use of the Debate to Enhance Teaching and Learning in Ethics (Marcel Beausoleil)
Teaching ethics
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Challenges
▪ How do you teach students to care about ethics?
They do not understand why it is important (I.e. I'm a good person
already)
▪ Students do not have a background in ethics (no previous courses) - how to get
through that and then applied material?
▪ Do not understand the enormity of the decisions that they make - students are
self-selecting in their fields, so they come with baggage
Integrity and society
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Political scandals, business world, policing
It becomes the new norm
Is there more in society today? Or are we just more aware of it?
Some have argued it has become acceptable to cheat (Callahan, Cheating
Culture)
Integrity and academics
▪ Students are less altruistic
▪ Number who admit to cheating on rise
Policing
▪ Group of people that have been authorized to use force
▪ What are the limitations? Moral principles?
▪ Explore the morality of coercion
▪ Difference between technical and moral dilemmas
Encourage students to see situations from other points of view
Methods of teaching ethics
o Case study method
▪ Students to go through the motions
▪ Were not thinking deeply about situations
▪ Playing to instructor, rather than thinking
▪ Has some value, but needs tweaking
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Debates
▪ Needs to be student centered, rather than instructor centered
▪ Need for student involvement, getting to deeper understanding
▪ Choice of topic important: no easy answers, different perspectives, controversial
▪ Gratuities for police officers
▪ Stop and frisk
▪ Morality do drug laws
▪ Doing the wrong thing for the right reason (hiding evidence, etc.)
▪ Exclusionary rule (illegally-obtained evidence)
▪ Set up
▪ Big groups don't work: multiple debates per class
▪ Pro team, con team, jury
▪ Out of class research
▪ Assigned side of argument, regardless of belief
▪ Jury had to research both sides, be able to ask questions
▪ Results
▪ Students loved it
▪ Evidence of research and thought
▪ Retained - assessed in final exam
▪ Problems
▪ Emotionalism
▪ Lack of honesty in self-assessment piece
▪ Small # did not work hard
Session 4 - Innovation Grant Workshop
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Innovation Grant CFP and Resources