While
various
praises
and
concerns were voiced by faculty at
the fourth and final LSA Diversity,
Equity, & Inclusion plan’s feedback
forum last Friday evening, most of
the night’s attention was on the lack
of faculty in attendance.
The large MLB Auditorium was
mostly empty with about 40 LSA
faculty were present.
Liz Cole, associate dean for
social sciences, led the forum as she
had the previous three by guiding
the audience through the main
faculty goals of the plan, though
she also addressed the issue of her
colleagues’ absence, saying, “The
In the first three Saturdays
in September, Hawaii, Central
Florida and Colorado each came
into Michigan Stadium, each
took a beating at the hands of
the Michigan football team and
each trudged off the field, quietly
holding their helmets.
But then this Saturday arrived,
and the Big Ten season began
with Penn State. Non-conference
tune-ups in the past, the Nittany
Lions presumably brought a
tougher test.
And yet they suffered the
same fate, as the Wolverines
steamrolled another outmatched
visitor,
scoring
six
rushing
touchdowns
and
smothering
Penn State’s offense in a 49-10
victory.
They have dealt similar fates
to
other
Michigan
Stadium
visitors in the past two seasons.
It
happened
first
a
year
ago with Oregon State, Jim
Harbaugh’s team’s first victim
by a score of 35-7. Later came
a ranked Northwestern team,
which Michigan exposed and
dispatched, 38-0. Just last week,
Colorado came to town off two
lopsided victories and threatened
to knock off the Wolverines, yet
still fell by 17.
Much like it did against those
opponents, Michigan controlled
the line of scrimmage and, with
it, the game. The Wolverines
As Political Science Prof. Mika
LaVaque-Manty addressed the
students on the first day of his
class, “The Games We Play,” he
said something that surprised
many in attendance — that he
expected most of the 200-person
lecture hall to get an A as a final
grade.
“The way that this course is
designed means that you will
have to work hard to do poorly,”
LaVaque-Manty said.
LaVaque-Manty
expects
most students to get an A in his
classes because he structures it
using a method calling ‘gameful
learning’ —a process by which
a professor sets a point goal
for a class, and students can
earn
points
by
completing
assignments and projects chosen
by themselves.
Students in classes structured
this way walk in with a zero,
without any points. They must
earn the points by completing
assignments and projects, and
LaVaque-Manty says for his class,
there are more than enough to
earn an A.
This
is
fundamentally
different from grading in most
classes at the University, in which
each student begins at the highest
possible grade — a 100 percent —
and steadily loses points with
each
assignment
missed
or
wrong answer on an exam.
LaVaque-Manty’s
course
is part of a larger initiative by
the University to encourage
gameful learning, aided by a
learning platform built around
the concept, GameCraft, that
was developed at the School of
Information five years ago.
“I think that it is very
important in education today
for students to develop their
own
autonomy
and
agency
as
learners,”
LaVaque-Manty
said,“When you are given the
ability to choose the assignments
that you want to complete, you
develop
better
metacognitive
skills, the skills of good learners.”
The
start
of
gameful
learning at UM
Instituting gameful learning
in the classroom requires doing
a number of things differently,
and in many cases, that includes
incorporating a new platform for
students.
At UM, for most classes using
gameful learning, that platform
is GameCraft, developed by
School of Information Prof. Barry
Fishman and Rackham student
Caitlin Holman.
Fishman and Holman created
the tool based on the self-
determination
theory,
which
emphasizes the importance of
supporting
students’
natural
behavioral
and
academic
tendencies through academic
autonomy
—
students
are
encouraged to chart their own
academic course based on their
own interests, instead of a set,
FLINT — Chelsea Clinton
made a campaign stop in Flint
Friday morning for her mother,
Democratic presidential nominee
Hillary Clinton, at Greater Holy
Temple Church in Flint.
Following
remarks
from
Clinton,
Flint
Mayor
Karen
Weaver and U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee
(D—Flint) at the church, Clinton
also visited the United Auto
Workers station in Flint, which is
currently used as a call center for
the Clinton campaign.
In her speech Friday, Weaver
said the Clinton campaign has
helped Flint respond to the
water crisis the city is currently
facing, after a temporary switch
to Detroit’s water caused lead to
leach into Flint’s water.
“We have taken this crisis, and
this challenge, and made it into
an opportunity for the people
here in the city of Flint,” Weaver
said. “I remember shortly after
the declaration we got a call from
Hillary Clinton, and she said:
‘I’m sending some people to see
what’s going on.’ And we talked
about the water crisis and we
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©2016 The Michigan Daily
NEWS......................... 2A
OPINION.....................4A
CL ASSIFIEDS............... 5A
SUDOKU..................... 2A
A R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 A
SPORTSMONDAY. . . . . . . . .1B
See FOOTBALL, Page 3A
AMELIA CACCHIONE/Daily
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Culture Officer Latisha Cunningham speaks at the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion forum for staff members at Lorch Hall Friday
Two weeks before University
of
Michigan
President
Mark
Schlissel is slated to unveil his
University-wide
strategic
plan
for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion,
LSA staff members — a group that
includes assistants, advisors and
other
non-professors
working
at the University— gathered to
discuss their school-specific plan,
voicing both praise and some
hesitations about the long-term
implementation of the plan.
Similar to LSA faculty and
students, staff members listened
to a presentation on LSA’s strategic
plan — a first draft of which was
See CLINTON, Page 3A
Not even close
The Michigan football team
opened conference play the
same way it breezed through
its non-conference schedule:
with a blowout victory.
» Page 1B
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See GAMECRAFT, Page 3A
See PLAN, Page 3A
The University of Michigan’s
Central
Student
Government
released
a
statement
on
its
Facebook page Friday in solidarity
with Eastern Michigan University
and several cities where allegations
of racially charged police brutality
have been raised, most recently in
Charlotte, N.C.
The statement also affirmed
the
body’s
support
of
the
#BlackLivesMatter
movement,
which has been active on the
University of Michigan’s campus
as recently as Saturday.
“All of us, regardless of how
directly or indirectly these issues
impact us, must stand up and
fight against all forms of injustice
and bigotry,” the statement reads.
“Be an ally through your actions.
Challenge and call in those around
you to be and do better.”
Last Tuesday, EMU found
that racially charged slurs were
graffitied on several academic
and student housing buildings.
Though the university washed
away the graffiti, The Eastern
Echo reported that EMU students
gathered outside the building
See CSG, Page 3A
See STRATEGY, Page 3A
AMELIA CACCHIONE/Daily
Black Lives Matter activists hold signs in front of the Michigan Union on Saturday — read more on Page 2A.
#BL ACKLIVESM AT TE R
Wolverines
cruise past
Penn State,
move to 4-0
‘U’ faculty, staff discuss concerns
about LSA diversity strategic plan
FOOTBALL
Stingy defense holds Nittany Lions
under 200 yards in 49-10 victory
JAKE LOURIM
Managing Sports Editor
Organizers field questions about attendance, long-term implementation
RIYAH BASHA
Daily Staff Reporter
Chelsea
Clinton
visits Flint,
talks crisis
GOVERNMENT
During campaign stop,
city mayor discusses
initiatives for kids
EMMA KINERY
Daily News Editor
Professors push for pedagogical shift
in teaching through gameful learning
University continues to invest in GradeCraft platform
TIM COHN
Daily Staff Reporter
CSG calls
for student
solidarity
with EMU
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Racially charged graffiti
found at Eastern Michigan
University last week
NISA KHAN
Daily Staff Reporter
KATHERINE CURRAN
Daily Staff Reporter