Hello everyone, (Apologies for cross-posting)
I hope wherever you’re at in the year is treating you well. I am teaching an on-line and asynchronous summer course right now, and because why not, I have them doing a mock climate negotiation. There are only 40 students, they’ll be in groups of 10 (10 countries in each), and they have a complex, 4 article resolution to discuss. I’m a bit worried about the final part where they discuss and debate positions and try to come up with an agreement. But we can’t do anything live, it’ll carry on over 3-5 days as they add to discussion posts as and when they can. Has anyone tried this? Any tips on getting conversations started and keeping them going? Or apps you’ve used to facilitate these/keep discussions focused? They are doing opening statements with zoom backgrounds from their assigned countries! I’ve called it a climate “politics” exercise, not a “negotiations” one, as they’ll be reflecting as they go, and we don’t have time for the full-on, regular semester version. This is a 6 week course. Happy to share what we collectively come up with, Thanks! Kate *************************************** Kate O'Neill Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, Associate Dean, Office of Instructional and Student Affairs at the Rausser College of Natural Resources University of California at Berkeley Unceded Chochenyo Ohlone Lands [email protected] @kmoneill2530 Website <https://ourenvironment.berkeley.edu/people/kate-o039neill> WASTE <http://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9780745687391&subject_id=2> (Polity Press, 2019) Calendly meeting links: https://calendly.com/kmoneillmeetings/15min https://calendly.com/kmoneillmeetings/30min -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/18838F7B-1538-493F-A3F7-27CF7AC67E00%40berkeley.edu.
