High School Debating Takes a Digital Turn

High School Debating Takes a Digital Turn

Carondelet High School history teacher Phil Miller is integrating technology into classroom debates. He allows students to earn participation points for researching and posting arguments on a digital back channel, providing research support to their teammates making oral arguments in front of the class.
—Dan Rosenstrauch/Contra Costa Times
By Theresa Harrington, Contra Costa Times, Concord, Calif. (MCT)
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In Phil Miller's Advanced Placement U.S. History class at Carondelet High, an all-girls Catholic school here, students have a more sophisticated way of communicating with each other during classroom debates than they had in the past. They are going digital.

During a hotly contested debate recently about whether it was a good idea for the United States to annex the Philippine Islands in 1900, students pulled out laptops and logged on to team blogs to tap out ideas for questions and arguments.

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