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teaching as performance art

creative confidence -- ability to come u with breakthrough ideas and act on them

Why students need to fail Moira MacDonald, University Affairs, December 4, 2013 Interesting article on the design of a course that has students act as instructors, drawing their presentations from dense and difficult texts, in an environment that is challenging and often results in failure. The course, taught by Concrodia University professor Vivek Venkatesh, "was really about thinking on your feet," says Tieja Thomas, a PhD candidate who took the course. "You had to come prepared . . . It really was a deeper form of learning."

speaking of GMOs