Announcements:
Aims of the session:
- Take a moment to reflect on reading week and this week
- Use debate as a way to practise different kinds of knowledge integration and drawing connections between different modules
- Debate the motion: This House Believes There Is No Room For Conceptual Thinking In Problem Solving
Presence (10 mins):
Choose 1 activity
Gratitudes & Challenges
- Share 1 thing you are grateful for
- Share 1 thing you found challenging this week
- Check in on your intentions from last week
Highlights & Lowlights
- Share a highlight from the week
- Share a lowlight from the week
- Check in on your intentions from last week
Coach’s choice
- Meditation
- A walk
- Etc
Integration (40 mins):
Invite the group to use role play to engage in a debate-style dialogue: ‘defending’ or ‘advocating’ for positions they may not otherwise engage with. The aim is to help them build (more) confidence in communicating with various stakeholders who may not see the value of theory and/or practice.
Debate: This House Believes There Is No Room For Conceptual Thinking In Problem Solving
Instructions:
- Split into groups
- Group of 4 or less:
- Split into two groups (max 2 people per group):
- Group A: Affirmative Team - in favour of the motion
- Group B: Opposing Team - opposing the motion
- Group of 5 or more:
- Split into three groups
- Group A (2 people): Affirmative Team - in favour of the motion
- Group B (2 people): Opposing Team - opposing the motion
- Group C (1-2 people): Judging Team - judging the quality of evidence and argument
2. Prepare arguments in groups (20 mins) (the judging team can tag along to either Group A or B during this phase)
3. Debate order:
- Affirmative Team: A representative from Group A presents arguments in support of the motion (2 mins)
- Opposition Team: A representative from Group B presents arguments opposing the motion (2 mins)
- Affirmative Team: A representative from Group A presents further arguments in support of the motion, identifies areas of conflict, and answers questions that may have been raised by the opposition speaker (5 mins)
- Opposition Team: A representative from Group B presents further arguments against the motion, identifies further areas of conflict, and answers questions that may have been raised by the previous affirmative speaker (5 mins)
- Opposition Team: concluding remarks (3 mins)
- Affirmative Team: concluding remarks (3 mins)
Next steps and Tracking Outcomes (10 mins):
Debrief
What insights from the debate can you integrate into your problem statement and how will you do that?