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
Peer work
- Brain storming
- Note taking
- research online
- Keywords related to the topic
- Hand out
- Class participation
- Relevant questions to the debate
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
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