Using Debate In Helping Students Discuss Controversial Topics
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Helping Students Understand Challenging Topics in Science Through Ontology Training
Chi (2005) proposed that students experience difficulty in learning about physics concepts such as light, heat, or electric current because they attribute to these concepts an inappropriate ontological status of material substances rather than the more veridical status of emergent processes. Conceptual change could thus be facilitated by training students in the appropriate ontology prior to ph...
متن کاملChallenging Topics in Science 1 Helping students understand challenging topics in science through ontology training
Chi (2005) has proposed that students experience difficulty in learning about physics concepts such as light, heat, or electric current because they attribute these concepts with an inappropriate ontological status of material substances rather than the more veridical status of emergent processes. Conceptual change could thus be facilitated by training students in the appropriate ontology prior...
متن کاملUnbiased Learning of Controversial Topics
When presented with many relevant documents about a controversial topic, humans do not always read and trust them uniformly. Instead, they tend to follow and agree with articles and sources that hold similar viewpoints as theirs, a phenomenon known as confirmation bias. This suggests that when acquiring additional knowledge about a controversial topic, human biases and viewpoints about the topi...
متن کاملThe most controversial topics in Wikipedia:
We present, visualize and analyse the similarities and differences between the controversial topics related to “edit wars” identified in 10 different language versions of Wikipedia. After a brief review of the related work we describe the methods developed to locate, measure, and categorize the controversial topics in the different languages. Visualizations of the degree of overlap between the ...
متن کاملTelling Apart Tweets Associated with Controversial versus Non-Controversial Topics
In this paper, we evaluate the predictability of tweets associated with controversial versus non-controversial topics. As a first step, we crowd-sourced the scoring of a predefined set of topics on a Likert scale from non-controversial to controversial. Our feature set entails and goes beyond sentiment features, e.g., by leveraging empathic language and other features that have been previously ...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of College Teaching & Learning (TLC)
سال: 2007
ISSN: 2157-894X,1544-0389
DOI: 10.19030/tlc.v4i10.1540