Today, at around 8, my friend and colleague Matthias and I are welcoming our students to our class in “E-Democracy – Opportunities for Participatory Democracy?“.
We look forward to learning (and so much more …) with them for the next two and a half months, here at Deutsche SchülerAkademie in Brunswick. For me, it’s the mother of all summer schools.
Here’s the teaser with which we’re beginning our teaching tonight.
Learn more about our course here.
This summer, I look forward to going back to Deutschen SchülerAkademie, for me, the mother of all summer schools.
(Imagefilm von Bildung & Begabung e.V. dem Träger der Akademien seit 1988.)
My friend and colleague Matthias Bröcheler and I are offering a course on “E-Democracy – An Opportunity for Participatory Democracy?”. Together with 16 students, we will look into computer science, sociological, mathematical, political science and statistical perspectives on the essential question of how to organize postindustrial, liberal democracy , “unity in diversity”. At the intersection of our interests and academic disciplines, politics and IT, social and computer science, we look forward to taking our students on a transcdisciplinary adventure.
Aldrich Hall, University of California, Irvine, Fall 2007
Today was my first day of teaching at UCI. “Statistics and Probability”, the class I will be holding discussion sections for three times a week, starting this week, is a three quarter series, introducing (mostly freshman) undergraduates to basic issues of statistical methods. The subject, it occurred to me today, is unlikely to be overly popular amongst the students at UCI, as is probably the case everywhere else, too. I, for my part, am determined to make the section as entertaining and applied in focus as possible, and I hope that desperate ice-breakers of the sort of the “fun” games we did today will be rewarded by active participation.
