In a city open-data class, a learner launches a politically charged rant about the council and invites the room to take sides. The designed objective is publishing a complete dataset. What should the instructor do?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
A council rant is a stalled car in the left lane. You do not argue with the driver about city hall—you get traffic moving again. Point back to the dataset job, park the politics, and keep the class on the objective.
Full Explanation
Facilitation includes redirecting unproductive digressions so the environment stays focused on stated learning objectives. A political rant about council is off-task in an open-data class; the instructor returns the group to publishing the dataset without joining the argument. Debating, surrendering the agenda, or ejecting and canceling all mishandle the disruption relative to the objective.