debate content

Ted

 
Emanuele
How verbal skills are important in the job market
Promote pro-knowledge
Evaluating Debaters

• Role play
• Use of Statistics
• proposal
• presentation
• Thinking on their feet

Engagement
Peer work

• Brain storming
• Note taking
• research online
• Keywords related to the topic

 Evaluating Audience

• Hand out
• Class participation
• Relevant questions to the debate

Brendan
Critical Thinking Movement
Criticism (debate or argument) that "Bloom confuses Knowledge for Recall"

Richard Paul - Critical Thinking in a rapidly changing world, 1998 Chapter 31

• (Knowledge)        - Recall 
• Comprehension
• Application
• Analysis               - Debate
• Synthesis
• Evaluation

Bloom's Taxonomy (1979) is a hierarchy and therefore does not properly describe learning (2000-)

2 + 2 = 4           Student: But why?      Teacher:  Because I said so.        - Recall, is not knowledge.

Kessara

• stimulates controversial conversation
• it is a source of communication
• a way to exchange information
• bring out important points verbally 

 Summary

Debates as a teaching method:

•  Developing skills and General competencies

•  Assessment of student critical thinking
• Communication and peer learning