Alien Pedagogy

The debate team has continued to grow through networking on Moodle. Our committees returned from the winter break still aware of what has been happening and they were able to rapidly establish forums that will allow them to execute their vision.

The trick now will be seeing them use those forums, even though the club only meets once per week.

During our semester review, the Debate Team had a lot to say.

Over two weeks, we categorized three made main categories and then broke into groups designed to work towards meeting those goals. I assigned each group a leader and the other students volunteered to join a category group, which worked very smoothly. Two students volunteered to monitor our Moodle site. After that, we had a team for: Background Knowledge/ Resolutions, Competition, and for Skills.

I asked each group to follow this process:

• Create a Vision / Mission (5 minutes)
• Brainstorm Potential Actions (5 minutes)
• Consider Logistics and Reality as well as how this would happen using Moodle (10 minutes)

On the whole, the groups made solid plans that are realistic.

Still, I was a little disappointed to see myself so rapidly becoming obsolete in their development.