The class can draw upon differences in perspective and persuasion to build a conversation, solve a problem, or interpret an experiment.
Think of it as an opportunity to build a conversation.
By exploring the structured arena of knowledge sharing, we can escape the limitations of knowledge integration and instead focus on what conditions are needed to build a conversation among different knowledge holders or knowledge spaces (Goldman 2007).
We want to build a conversation that engages a wider and wider community, focused on the single objective of fundamental reform.
NearGroup solves this by making profiles hidden until users choose to selectively disclose them to those they've built a trusted conversation with".
"We've built up a process where we can build a new conversation every two days," von Ahn says.
For A World At School, the challenge was to find a way to build a global conversation about the importance of education at a time when the number of children out of school around the world is on the increase and basic aid to education on the decline.
"How do we create a space," the president asked, "where truth gets eyeballs and it's entertaining and we can build a common conversation around it?" During the wide-ranging interview, Maher questioned whether it was time the federal government caught up with progressive states on marijuana laws.
He had been booked as a guest long before the Orlando tragedy, but far from simply making the best of a potentially awkward situation, their conversation quickly built a bridge between ideologies that too often, and on both sides, rely more on interpretation than information, on competitive posturing more than actual dialogue.
We built a concept around some Facebook conversations we had throughout the following year about the importance of the television in our childhoods, relating it back to the failed experiment we had gazing at the bleu screen and scratching out heads.
