| Workshop Itinerary |
| Workshop Subject/Title |
Workshop Presenter |
Workshop Description |
| Water in the West: Understanding the Lake Powell Pipeline |
Denise Burton |
UT students in INTS and Honors Topics courses are challenged to explore multidisciplinary topics that are of interest to many but aren’t necessarily directly related to their degrees. In classical liberal arts tradition, instructors serve as guides in these far ranging explorations, supporting UT students in their efforts to become autonomous learners.
Workshop students will plan, research, and conduct a mock debate on the merits of the Lake Powell Pipeline, increasing their understanding of the complex issues that are relevant to the future of the Colorado River Basin and more fully engaging them in consideration of our civic and environmental responsibilities as desert-dwellers. |
| Why Earth Science? Because we live on Earth! |
Janice Hayden |
Geology focuses on the subsystems of the natural environment, including geosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere and how they interact in cause and effect relationships. In order for us to understand how Earth may change in the future, we must first understand Earth’s past and how and why the resources it provides us developed. We depend on Earth for resources to sustain us and to provide goods and power for our civilization. Resource availability is often a political and social issue, while cultural choices to develop and use these resources have global consequences, such as climate change. How can we continue providing for our civilization, but in a sustainable way, while living within the parameters of natural hazards that threaten civilization worldwide? Puzzled? Click here to watch a six minute youtube video. |
| A 100% immersive experience in active-teaching and active-learning, using “ethics” as the subject matter |
Shandon Gubler |
An immersive experience with a 100% active-teaching, active learning blended course, that uses the universal theme of “ethics” as its subject matter, and:
• Engages the active-teaching/active-learning pedagogies:
o Self-Explanation
o Personalized Meaning
o Study to Teach, Teach to Learn, Learn to Apply
• Includes easy to implement components of:
o Community engagement
o Service Learning
o Reverse Mentoring
• Positions teachers as:
o Active-Teaching/Active-Learning Curriculum Designers
o Mentors
o Guides
o Facilitators
o Coaches
Warning! This workshop will require a minimum of two hours of homework prior to coming to class. This is a truly immersive workshop, 100% active-teaching, and active-learning. You will learn a tremendous amount if you are willing to complete your homework prior to coming to class on August 16th. Please go to the CANVAS course prepared for this workshop and pay the price to introduce yourself to the subject matter, (ethics) prior to coming to class. Then, come to class on August 16th and experience the exhilaration of active-teaching and active-learning, and help your fellow colleagues learn from this totally engaging experience. Allow yourself to experience what your students will experience when you provide them an active-teaching, active-learning course. |
| Snapshot to Crackshot: How to get past your photographic limitations and start making art! |
Alex Chamberlain |
A crash course in the basic photography skills needed to take control of your images. Please bring your own camera. |
| “I Believe I Can See the Future, Because I Repeat the Same Routine”: Hannah Arendt, American Pragmatism, and the vita contemplativa as activa. |
John Wolfe |
This workshop seeks to explore the role of thought in ‘the active life’. As Hannah Arendt eloquently asks, “What are we ‘doing’ when we do nothing but think? Where are we when we, normally always surrounded by our fellow men, are together with no one but ourselves?” Using Arendt’s work in The Life of the Mind and The Human Condition as a starting point, we will explore the (possible) distinction between the public and private spheres of the human condition and Arendt’s attempt to balance the contemplative and active aspects of human life.
Yet, Arendt is intended to only be a starting point of discussion. We will branch into American Pragmatism, particularly the work John Dewey and Richard Rorty to further explore the ideas proposed by Arendt. Dewey’s discussion of intentionality and experience, as detailed in Art as Experience, and Rorty’s use of the Public/Private distinction in Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity will be used to both expound on Arendt’s thought as well as provide critiques of her conclusions. |
| Bringing Active Learning to the Great Outdoors of St. George |
Curt Walker |
Participants will meet at the scheduled time at Perks! coffee shop in Santa Clara, on the left side of Sunset Avenue as one proceeds west, just before the Home Depot. Carpooling is a good idea, as the parking lot is rather small. From Perks! we will walk a few hundred yards to a paved walking trail along a stream, and descend to that trail from the road. Most of the workshop will be conducted along this trail. We will discuss incorporating active learning into the classroom, with a special emphasis on science courses. We will especially seek to solve logistical problems with conducting single class periods (or more, up to and including semester-long research projects) outdoors in the St. George area. Participants should expect some easy hiking, but possibly muddy and/or brushy conditions, and to get wet if the weather is hot, as there is a fun cooling-off activity. Dress appropriately. |
| Introduction to Tree MASS-tery |
Greg Murray and Michele Poast |
As is the case in many UT courses, this workshop will progress from the acquiring of knowledge stage, to application, to evaluation–while applying mathematics to the science of trees. This workshop is a wonderful opportunity to appreciate the power of mathematics in the real world. Come and experience PALM based instruction while building a learning community with your peers on a fieldtrip to your favorite campus trees. Bring your curiosity and your problem-solving skills and prepare to emBARK on a fun-filled, arbor-based mathematical morning! |
| The Lake Powell Pipeline: Necessary investment or taxpayer-funded boondoggle? |
Henrie Walton |
This workshop will explore water policy and politics in Utah, with a specific focus on the Lake Powell Pipeline. Participants will hear from both sides of the pipeline debate and visit a local water treatment plant. In conclusion, participants will debate the validity of the proposed pipeline, and leave with a better understanding of how they as citizens can take public action related to this controversial project. |
