Lately I’ve been conducting a lot of research into the ways in which people engage in discussion or comment online. This includes the ways in which we share and favorite or retweet (RT) content on Twitter. This also includes comments on Facebook and reactions (i.e., like, love, haha, wow, sad, angry). In this work, I’ve found…
I’ve spent a lot of time recently writing about how I use Hypothesis in my own research and writing, and also in my classes with students. In various blog posts here on this website, and also videos on my YouTube channel, I’ve detailed how and why I use this as an assessment, and tool to…
In an earlier post, I discussed how to debate with others in real life. As we engage in discussion or debate with others, we often come across the person that wants to argue just for the sake of arguing. Gretchen Rubin identifies this as oppositional conversational style. Oppositional conversational style is a person, who in a…
We’ve all been in that situation where an informal conversation quickly becomes a discussion and then we find ourselves in a debate. A debate is a wonderful opportunity to flex your intellectual muscles and can lead to a deeper level of understanding for all individuals involved. There are excellent opportunities to embed debates in classrooms…