INTRODUCTION

DEFENDING YOUR STATEMENTS WITH ARGUMENTS

LEARNING HOW TO DEBATE

Complementary b-learning unit

World is changing and so people. Previous generations used to think and share equal worldview based on their social heritage. However, there is a new generation that have born in the information age, they have free access to information and have a different view of life. 

the future seen with the eyes of the past

Society has changed and so students, but teaching methods remains the same. And teacher should lead with this new scenario. Students needs and abilities go beyond the old fashion standards. Modern era students are already in touch with new technologies, but they don't know how to learn with them. This is where the teacher appears as a learning facilitator. He should guide his/her students on making his own way through learning (construct learning)  

This blog is complementary to a unit based on creating a debate group. Students will be able to develop critical thinking and a wider point of view for different topics. The participants of this class, also, would be able to improve their researching skills by learning how to discriminate between sources and its reliability.

old school teaching methods, not so different nowadays...
 until now

The teacher will be in charge of leading the group through different task based on using internet databases and WEB 2.0(youtube, twitter, facebook, and blogs). The role of the teacher will be as a facilitator of learning rather than just a knowledge source.  The teacher would be monitoring the students and encouraging them to be self-aware of their own learning. The teacher would also have know how to use these web tools, so he/she must be up to date with ITCs usage in order to guide his/her students.




In the first unit, the teacher would lead the student to learn about the basis of debating. The use of web searcher (i.e. google, yahoo) is crucial at this level. The teacher He would encourage the students to research about topics and how to select the correct arguments. 



In the second unit, Students would analyse a political debate on youtube. They would also have to research about politicians’ background. They will have to identify the arguments used by the politician and its reliability based on their researches. The idea is to encourage critical thinking and discourse analysis.

even no one can be elected

In the final unit, students would have to create their own proposals as candidate for class president. They will have to record their own speech and record it online. The teacher will help the students with the recording and the speech preparation using an online voice recording site Vocaroo.com and supporting them with any other requirement.