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Stephen Downes

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As a final project in a philosophy class, I once assigned students to design their own religion. They would take into account the various dimensions of religiosity we had explored in the class. Moreover, I told them they could use any presentation format they wanted: a video, a paper, a toolkit, a cube. I got a wild assortment of spectacular religions presented in every format imaginable - and gave out a lot of As and Bs. This exercise by Thiagi is similar. "Synthetic Culture Activities assign participants to artificial groups in which a few selected dimensions are specified at their extreme values." It's a bit more structured than my approach - though this structure could be varied to adapt to any content matter, from social studies to language to arts to sciences.

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