Topic outline
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Week 2: January 16 - 22
In week 2, participants will discuss the benefits of having debates in the classroom. They will use Google word text docs, Padlet, Voicethread, Kahoot, and add Quizlet (our class) as they collaborate and create pre-lesson activities for their class chosen debate topic. They will work in teams or individually as they create a team policy and prepare 1 debate topic with 5 for and 5 against points using the comments on the doc and inserting individual audio for the team collaborative presentation or for their individual presentation slides.
Each member of the team will add the final Google doc to the team or individual curation walls and share the links of the curation walls with the other participants.
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You may work in your team or individually.
- Choose one topic from the list of 50 Debate Topics.
- Share you choice.
- Why did you choose it?
Reply to at least one other participant.
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Google Docs
Watch the following video tutorials on how to create, copy, and manage a new Google text doc
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Create pre lesson debate activities using Padlet, Voicethread, Kahoot, or Quizlet for your chosen debate topic. Remember you and your team will need to create for and against for the debate topic. Share the links of your activities.
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Please reflect on the experience of collaborating on the Google docs and on the activities by relating to the following questions:
- What are the benefits of the tasks?
- Do you see any challenges in such collaboration in your classes?