BreakoutEDU: Helping students break out of their comfort zones

Susan Detwiler, Trudi Jacobson, Kelsey O’Brien

Abstract

If you’d walked by Professor Susan Detwiler’s Writing and Critical Inquiry (WCI) classrooms at the University at Albany-SUNY on September 7, you would have seen something rather unusual: two teams of students huddled around tables, preoccupied with locked boxes and an assortment of other materials. Engaged in animated, yet hushed, conversations to keep the other team from overhearing, the students puzzled over cryptic messages and secret codes, hoping to unlock the box and reveal what was inside. Some of the materials on the table provided clues, others turned out to be red herrings.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.79.2.62
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