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Thursday, May 7, 2015
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
NEWS

Former Rep. 
Dingell donates 
papers to Bentley 

College educators 
explore learning, 
role of technology

Documents outline 

congressman’s 59- year 
tenure in the House 
of Representatives 

By IRENE PARK

Daily Staff Reporter

Thanks to John Dingell, the for-

mer U.S. congressman for Michi-
gan’s 12th Congressional District, 
the University’s Bentley Historical 
Library now has access to a collec-
tion of materials from his 59 years of 
service in the House of Representa-
tives. 

At a reception Wednesday eve-

ning at the Gerald R. Ford Presi-
dential Library, Dingell officially 
announced his donation of the col-
lection to the Bentley.

The 
collection 
includes 
cor-

respondence 
bills 
that 
Dingell 

introduced in the House as well as 
photographs taken during his time 
in office. 

In a statement released prior to 

the event, Dingell said he was hon-
ored to contribute documents to the 
Bentley Library.

“I consider myself the lucki-

est guy in shoe leather for having 
the opportunity to serve the good 
people of Southeast Michigan for as 
long as I did, and it is a real honor 
that the work we all did together 
will be documented here at this fine 
institution,” he said. “I am pleased 
they were able to find the space for 
all of it, but mostly I’m just honored 
and humbled to join the other out-
standing individuals whose good 
work for our state is archived at the 
Bentley, including my father.” 

Earlier this year, Dingell was 

honored for his policy work involv-
ing the Middle East. Dingell is also 
an active supporter of J Street Ann 
Arbor, a national advocacy group 
that promotes conflict resolution 
between Israelis and Palestinians 
through creating two independent 
states — one Israeli and one Pales-
tinian — out of what is now Israel.

Dingell was also one of 74 mem-

bers of Congress to sign a 2012 let-

Event showcased 

projects on 
modernizing 

teaching methods

By ALEX JUNTTI

For the Daily

A group of approximately 250 

educators gathered at the Ross 
School of Business on Monday to 
learn and talk about how tech-
nology can be used in education 
to develop new ways of provid-
ing a more dynamic learning 
experience for students.

one through my hard work 

and the hard work of so many 
other people, the opportunity to 
be with their family for the rest 
of their life,” she said.

The keynote event was hosted 

by the University’s Teaching 
and Technology Collaborative, 
which holds events and offers 
consultations to teach faculty 
members how to utilize tech-
nology in their teaching and 
research.

The first portion of the event 

showcased recent winners of 
the seventh annual Provost’s 
Teaching Innovation Prize in an 
interactive poster fair held in the 
Davidson Winter Garden. The 
prize recognizes University fac-
ulty projects that demonstrate 
exciting, modern approaches 
to engaging students in learn-
ing, and was sponsored by the 
Office of the Provost, the Center 
for Research on Learning and 
Teaching and the University 
Library. Attendees were encour-
aged to speak with the win-
ners and learn more about their 
research and findings.

In an interview with The 

Michigan Daily, James Hilton, 
dean of libraries and vice pro-
vost for digital education and 
innovation, said projects like 
these are a great way for stu-
dents to connect with the course 

material outside the classroom.

“These 
winning 
projects 

challenge students to actively 
apply what they’ve learned to 
real situations that can be much 
messier than those described in 
textbooks,” Hilton said. “In the 
process, students learn to collab-
orate and think critically, often 
across disciplinary boundaries.”

Alongside the TIP present-

ers were additional projects 
by teams who received CRLT 
Investigating Student Learn-
ing grants as well as technology 
projects conducted by Teaching 
and Technology Collaborative 
members.

Jill Halpern is a mathematics 

lecturer and a TIP winner. Her 
project focused on teaching the 
principles of calculus through 
tangible, 
observable 
occur-

rences. She said she often takes 
her students to the Museum of 
Natural History and the Nichols 
Arboretum to demonstrate how 
processes such as half-life and 
sequences in series can occur in 
nature.

“I want to get my students 

asking, ‘Why?’,” Halpern said. 
“Out of the classroom they can 
really see the world, so that 
means when they come back to 
a traditional classroom, there’s a 
lot more, ‘What is this used for? 
Where does this come from?’ 
then there might otherwise 
because they’ve been primed to 
ask those questions.”

Musicology 
Prof. 
Mark 

Clauge 
said 
the 
innovative 

efforts of these teams are chang-
ing the way students learn new 
material.

“This kind of experimenta-

tion is something that is really 
vital for the classroom,” said 
Clauge. “When students are in a 
classroom where the faculty are 
experimenting with new ideas, 
new approaches and new philos-
ophies of learning, they start to 
become more conscious of their 

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