Conducting New Seminars in Mr. Hermann’s and Mr. Klugman’s Classrooms
Welcome back everyone to Week 4!
This week, I have conducted two new seminars in Mr. Hermann’s and Mr. Klugman’s classrooms. The topic of this discussion centered around the question: Should universities be allowed to use affirmative action in their admissions decisions? From this point of debate, students were randomly assigned into groups of 4-6 and received a stakeholder to represent. The stakeholders for this seminar were an under-represented minority student, a non-minority student with a strong application (high merit), The US Supreme Court, Students for Fair Admissions, ACLU (Civil Rights Advocacy Groups), and an admission officer.
While this session was conducted similarly to the last one regarding the TikTok ban, I made a few changes given the feedback forms I had received and the observational data I collected. For instance, instead of giving students a six or seven minute increment to discuss generally. I have given each stakeholder allotted questions and rebuttal time. Meaning that now, instead of having six minutes in total for all of the stakeholders to ask each other questions/give their points of criticism, each stakeholder will be under the hot seat for 60/90 seconds, allowing any of the others in the circle to ask them specific questions or raise concerns.
After this week, I have now completed ⅔ of the seminars I will be conducting. While I haven’t officially released the second survey (with the same general questions as the first; view survey here), that will be given to students next week. This means, now that I have more survey data (as well as data showing progression), I can begin to build the frameworks of our visualization model. More information on this is soon to come!
Wishing you all my best,
Cameron
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