Saturday, February 9, 2008

Republican Debates


Context --
My students are in the midst of a unit on argumentation. We have just done an activity about logic fallacies. I was searching for some debates to have the students pick out the fallacies in the candidates' arguments. When I logged onto nytimes.com there they were! The Republican Debates had just taken place the night before and nytimes had video and transcripts there for the analyzing. It was really fun to see how many fallacies were made ( by McCain).
How I would use it in class?
I used it and I would use something similar in the future. My students are voting this year, so they really were interested in what was said. I may go here again later in the campaigns.

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