Debate Class Overview

     Due to that debating is not an subject normally taught in schools, I am devoting this entry to an overview of the two debate classes I have attended. In both classes, the students being taught have done the same activity. In neither class we debated things, but both were obviously debate related. We played a game called "Spot the Fallacy". This game was played in the following method: the players split into teams, and each team got their own white board. The instructor running the class would read a quote from a real person. Each team would have to use the find the illogical argument structure hidden in the quote. Posters with descriptions of ten or so fallacy types are posted on a near by wall. Each group would write the name of a fallacy type, for example the "fallacy of a circular argument", on their white board. When everyone flips their whiteboard, the team are accorded one point if the fallacy they wrote was in the quote. Even though I have not done any actual debating a point, I have been told that we will do that at some point. Sorry I couldn't post earlier!