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for more active and collaborative programs, where students can work in groups and share ideas. We are setting the foundation for academic and personal success, and cultivating the qualities of character vital for leadership and for the health of a democratic society.” IDEATION LAB/BRYANT IDEA
Bryant is also creating more active, high-tech, and collaborative classrooms. The Ideation Lab, for example, opened this fall and was designed to promote this type of collaboration. Working in teams, students draw and write on every surface in the room — including walls and glass. Movable tables and chairs enable collaboration and interactive work. Instead of standing at the front of a classroom, faculty members teach
from the center of the room using a keyboard and projection screens. On January 21, the Class of 2016 kicked off the start of their second semester with the Bryant IDEA (Innovation Design Experience for All) — a 72-hour immersion into teamwork and creative problem solving that is the capstone project of the fall semester’s Gateway curriculum. IDEA , as it is called, which might be described as boot camp meets Donald Trump’s “The Apprentice,” is designed to excite students about a different way of learning. IDEA also offered a different way of teaching, one developed “to help you understand how to use design thinking in your life,” President Ronald K. Machtley told the students on the event’s opening day. “We hope that when you
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