- Use other expertise in class-build agency
- Need to decide class or individual blog or hybrid
- Role play--allowing students to experiment with voices/tones-break out of in class roles
- Need to help students thinking critically about information they find/use
- Need to be aware of organization--can quickly get out control
- Use of multi-modality important--build over time
Collaborative Argumentation
Jefferson High School in Bloomington
University of North Dakota Mascot issue (reading novel-Montana 1948)
- Select an issue, formulate argument, conducted research, post arguments on class blogs, then step out of roles and reflect
- Students would caucus in class time to argue different points
- Wrote a persuasive essay
- construct persona
- employ rhetorical appeals
- identify and refute counter arguments
- revise and modify opinions
wiki for information
roles
i.e. president of university, Native american jury member (i.e. need to convince each other), white female student hockey fan, give bios (find images), [anonymous], infer beliefs, create tension and conflict (that is what keeps a role play going)
or have class select topic: (i.e. lower drinking age, teacher pay for performance-govt officials, union, pro/con, student, privacy in school computing)
future ideas:
digital mapping for argument diagrams (bubbl.us) include connections based on opinion and reason, chart of power, creating alliances to force other group to change mind--final action?
privacy: book-little brother
Other uses of blogs:
--living syllabus--include calendar--so as things change it is updated automatically
--Reader-based feedback (Peter Elbow) engaging with text not judging text--need to train students on how to do this
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Olga's blog: http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mena0042/firstblog/
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