The Power of Dialogue

Collaborative learning theory is certainly not a new idea. It’s been nearly a century since Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget argued that knowledge is more effectively learned through interaction and collective problem-solving.

Programming at this year’s IFT FIRST Event and Expo, July 10–13 at Chicago’s McCormick Place, aims to take Piaget’s idea a step further, though, basing the core of the program squarely on dialogue, debate, and discovery around critical issues and questions facing the global f…