Class participation is not limited to speaking up in class and coming prepared. There are also character/ behavior
issues:
* Managing Ambiguity. "Managing ambiguity is that tension between rushing to the clear, the concrete, and managing this
ambiguous fuzzy area in the middle. There is no single linear solution."
* Agency and Responsibility. "We have to be able to take responsibility and know what that means. Being an effective agent
means being able to approach one’s environment, social or physical, with a confidence that one actually will be able
to deal with it."
* Finding and Sustaining Community. "Managing community is partly about that multitasking of connecting and interacting.
It’s also, of course, about maintaining community, about maintaining links with people, making sure you do remember
your best friend’s birthday, that you don’t forget that your grandmother is by herself this weekend, and of course
recognizing also that one is part of a larger community, not just one’s own private little world."
* Managing Emotion. "Really it’s about getting away from the idea that emotion and reason are separate… Teaching
young people to manage reason and emotion."
* Managing Technological Change. "When we have a new tool, we first use it for what we are already doing, just doing it
a bit better. But gradually, the new tool changes the way we do things. It changes our social practices."