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Recognizing what’s missing from teaching debate in an online class format
I made the choice to change my debate course to something more active from something where we discuss and analyze the role of debate in society through the meta. In the past, students would discuss, write, and speak about various debates in a hope to evaluate the role and purpose of the discourse we call…
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Why the National Communication Association Should Host Public Debates at the Annual Conventions
I have been attening the NCA Convention nearly every year since 2003. At first I was enamored and loved it. Now, almost 10 years later, I’m a bit more cynical about it. Going into a nearly empty room to hear someone read a paper composed for the eye in a soft voice is not necessarily…
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New Podcast: Possibilities and Potential between debate and the university
This special late night post is to let you know that In the Bin is back in regular production. This was a wonderful conversation between Matt and I about the issues facing debate and facing the university today. We discuss the role of debate in the classroom and the promise of creating a center for…
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There are Topics Not Worth Debating. How Do We Know?
Got a great question along with a great article from a friend last month, now I’m finally getting to it. The simple response is, yes of course! But the more complex response is to examine how we should determine what debates are not worth having, and the criteria for this choice should be based not…
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A First Resolution for 2021, emphasis on “resolution.”
If I have one thing that I want to establish over the course of next year is the elimination of the phrase “public debate.” I used this term a lot without understanding the full implications of the insidious nature of this phrase. It’s used by those who are deeply involved in the world of tournament-contest…
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What is a Desirable Debating Culture?
Debate education, like debate in most democratic/capitalist countries, is set up poorly because it is set up in opposition to a way of thinking and judging. As any first year debate student can tell you, you can’t win a debate by setting up your position as “Don’t do what they want to do.” The debate…
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The Reason that Debating is as Important to Education as Writing
“We are all teachers of writing,” is not only a good principle of education, or a good mantra of focus for teachers overwhelmed my the irrelevant minutae of state requirements and Common Core, but it is also a political statement – it’s the phrase of victory of rhetoric and composition, who conquered the educational world…
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Feeling Gratitude
But everywhere I goI see it all, I see it all‘Cause everywhere I go I can’t even hide my loveI see it all, I see it allBut everywhere I goI see it all I see it all Everywhere I go by ALPHA 9 It’s been a couple of years since I put my debate program…
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Remembering Brad Smith
Debate has been a lot of things to me, but perhaps the most (or only) valuable thing about it has been the relationships I have made with people who are also attracted to, driven by, and influence debate. Some of these people love debate and give a lot more to it than they get from…
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We’re Hiring Someone who Does Debate, What do you Think?
The title of this post is a note I often get. I thought I’d make my common response public. Don’t hire a debate coach to run your debate program. Don’t hire someone who has a record of tournament success. Instead, hire someone who is a radical teacher, someone who is a critical pedagogue. You want…
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