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Stephen Downes

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"Campuses need more respectful, scaffolded environments where students can practice constructive disagreement, honing skills like intellectual humility, perspective-taking, and critical thinking," write Simon Cullen and Nicholas DiBella. I'm not sure that's exactly what the problem is these days, though I applaude their effort to address the problem. I haven't tried it, but here's their platform called Sway. "Sway connects pairs of students who disagree over topics chosen by their instructor and then uses AI to facilitate more open, reasonable conversations between them." More artificial pairing, which doesn't speak to me. 

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