Winning Arguments Podcast – starting before it starts!

My latest project is helping to build a podcast on argumentation that seeks to offer analysis of arguments circulating in the public to give people better ways of thinking about them while also suggesting ways these arguments could be made better.

I’ve never done the “build in public” thing before and so far so good. I like the idea that there will be an archive of how we built the show up. I think that I sort of have already done this in the past with courses – typing about and talking about the various choices I’m trying to make and decisions that will make the course work properly.

Of course build in public is quite popular among coders and IT types. It hasn’t hit education yet and might never. Teachers are notoriously insecure in having open conversations about teaching. It’s not really their fault. Society and government have made teaching a very difficult and low-compensated task indeed. Before it can move that way, coming up with a discourse about teaching that encourages open conversation, doubt, and failure as normal parts of the job has to happen. But this is another post!

Looking forward to seeing how this podcast goes. So far it’s been great. Loving the conversation and the things it has me thinking about.

We just launched our “Episode 1” on the 28th, see what you think of it. All comments welcome here or on the YouTube channel.

And here’s the behind the scenes version for the build and public piece of the project: