Mike, thanks for the thoughtful e-mail. I, along with a team of folks) are working on expanding a current JK-8 school to include a High School. We open 9th grade in a year from now. Your point about great questions comes at a time where I am personally trying to ask more and more powerful questions to get to the heart of what school is about. I can't help but share a valuable resource that I have come to rely on that came via a colleague, and that is "The Art of Powerful Questions" by Vogt, Brown and Isaacs. It is a short article available via the World Cafe site as a PDF: <a href="http://www.theworldcafe.com/pdfs/aopq.pdf">http://www.theworldcafe.com/pdfs/aopq.pdf</a>.<br>
<br>It encourages a constant revisioning questions to make them more and more powerful. This "power" allows the person asking to take the issue farther without limiting the view. A simple training for teachers and/or students could create a vision of the kind of thinking we want in all of our community members.<br>
<br>There are big questions to be answered, and there are small tools to use to help us along the way. I'd put "The Art of Powerful Questions" in the essential tools category.<br><br>Looking forward to discussing this more,<br>
arvind<br><br>-- <br>arvind s grover<br>Dean of Faculty<br>Grace Church School<br>212-475-5610 x804<br><a href="mailto:agrover@gcschool.org" target="_blank">agrover@gcschool.org</a><br><a href="http://www.gcschool.org">www.gcschool.org</a><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Michael Wesch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike.wesch@gmail.com">mike.wesch@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">I always love/hate this time of year - gearing up for the semester and</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">doing some really deep thinking about what our students *really* need</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">to learn (or more broadly, the type of person they need to become) and</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">how we can help them. I'm actually not teaching this year, but 7</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">years of this kind of thing and I seem to have fallen into a pattern.</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">I just can't go through August with out getting my head all messed up</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">over these questions.</font></div>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">This year I have reached some tiny bit of clarity. Not that I have</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">"the answer" - but I have come to realize that I have been spending</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">the past 7 years of teaching trying to do one thing (hereafter known</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">as "THE GOAL") while struggling with five basic observations about</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">learning and education today.</font></div>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">So first, THE GOAL: Inspire great questions.</font></div>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">Since all good thinking begins with a good question, it strikes me</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">that if we are ultimately trying to create “active lifelong learners”</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">with “critical thinking skills” and an ability to “think outside the</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">box” it might be best to start by getting students to ask better</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">questions. Unfortunately, we can find a great deal of advice on how to</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">ask good questions of students – non-rhetorical, open-ended, etc. –</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">but we rarely share ideas on how to get students to ask good</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">questions.</font></div>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">When I talk about “good questions,” I mean the kind of questions that</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">force students to challenge their taken-for-granted assumptions and</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">see their own underlying biases. Oftentimes the answer to a good</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">question is irrelevant – the question is an insight in itself. The</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">only answer to the best questions is another good question. And so the</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">best questions send students on rich and meaningful lifelong quests,</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">question after question after question.</font></div>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">A great question is at the heart of Maxine Greene's Social</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">Imagination: "the capacity to invent visions of what should be and</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">what might be in our deficient society." Really great questions are a</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">step beyond what normally passes for "critical thinking" and become</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">the generative source for finding solutions (and of course, new</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">questions.)</font></div>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">So, on to the</font></div>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">5 observations:</font></div>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">1. This is hard. Our formal learning environments and structures make</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">it difficult to inspire great questions. Inspiring great questions is</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">*really hard.* "Great Teachers" often get by with being called</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">"great" and even "the best ever" on teaching evaluations without ever</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">inspiring the kinds of questions that inspire life long learning. (I</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">have come to hate getting effusive positive evaluation comments that</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">somehow indicate that the student loved me, but there was clearly</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">little or no growth for the student involved) There are many</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">structures working against us - from tenure structures that restrict</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">experimentation and time-commitment, to grading procedures and and</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">curriculum standards (often requiring standardized testing of the</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">multiple-guessing sort). The most common questions in this</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">environment are often mundane administrative questions: "Can I use</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">Wikipedia?" "How long does this paper need to be?" "What do we need</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">to know for this test?" Such questions illustrate the 2nd</font></div>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">2. Students are tuning out. Large numbers of students are disengaged</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">altogether or engaged in nothing more than the "getting by" game</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">(doing just enough for a class to "get by" and get the grade they</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">want). It is rare that students hold the same lofty goals of</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">learning, critical thinking, etc. that their teachers hold for them.</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">Students have very different goals, which is the 3rd observation:</font></div>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">3. Students are struggling to figure out who they are, and who and</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">what they want to become. This is what Anthony Giddens has called the</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">"core project" of people in late modernity. As Charles Taylor and</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">others have pointed out, the modern world is one in which identity and</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">recognition are not givens. Social networking and other online tools</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">provide a platform for much of this quest. They tune out of class and</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">logon to Facebook, which leads to the 4th observation:</font></div>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">4. There is something in the air. In most of our classrooms (those</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">with WiFi, 3G, or 4G access), 2 billion people are connecting and</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">collaborating in the air all around us, building a vast digital</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">archive that represents a hefty portion of the entire body of human</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">knowledge ever created. But thinking about this in terms of</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">information and knowledge misses the 5th observation that</font></div>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">5. We increasingly live in a network society. Many of our</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">institutions, organizations, and social processes are operating less</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">and less through stable groups and hierarchies and more through</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">flexible networks and network logic. This transformation has been</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">happening for several decades and precedes the Web. Technologies of</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">mobility, transport, and communication provided the infrastructure for</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">these changes. We have labeled such changes "globalization,"</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">"flexible accumulation," "postmodernism," etc. All are aspects and</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">descriptions of this change to a network society / network logic.</font></div>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">New media enter this stream to create new types of conversation,</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">exchange, and collaboration. But the promise of these media are not</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">without disruption and peril. While new media bring with them new</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">possibilities for openness, transparency, engagement, and</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">participation, they also bring new possibilities for surveillance,</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">manipulation, distraction, and control. The negative side of this</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">ledger seem especially eminent in the face of widespread ignorance</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">about the uses, misuses, power, and (sometimes unintended)</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">consequences of new media. If we do not quickly raise our digital</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">literacy rates we stand to lose much more than we gain from the</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">promises of new media.</font></div>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">Indeed, depending on what date one would fix as the beginning point of</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">the network society, it would not be hard to argue that we are more</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">self-absorbed, less empathic, more unequal, and in overall worse shape</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">than we were when this all began.</font></div>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">Which makes it especially critical and disheartening that (1) our</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">schools are not inspiring big questions, (2)students are disengaged,</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">and (3) pursuing their own interests in the pursuit of finding</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">themselves, while embracing (4) the ubiquitous network for</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">entertainment and distraction while failing to see and harness it as</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">the most remarkable collaboration and creation machine ever created</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">that they could use to create a better world if they can come to</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">understand (5) networks and network logic.</font></div>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">Hopefully by the end of this conversation I'll have a bit more clarity</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">on some solutions, but I thought I should start out first by clearly</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">outlining the goal and the challenges as I see them.</font></div>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">Looking forward to the conversation!</font></div>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">~ Mike</font></div>
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<div style="text-align:left" align="left"><font style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000" color="#000000" face="Geneva" size="-0">Michael Wesch, PhD</font></div>
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