Debates #3: Tweetbate debrief

Although the class has achieved less during the lesson than I'd hoped (due in part to unexpected technological hiccups and insufficient preparation time), I hope that there have still been some takeaway lessons from this.

1) Working with your team - Hopefully this chance of splitting the work has given you an inkling of how to divide the research/preparation for the actual debates.

2) Planning your debate - Somewhat related to the earlier point, but you'll need to think about what points you expect to make during your oral debate, and preferably pre-empt some of the opposing team's arguments and prepare rebuttals for them.

3) Generating rebuttals - Some of you might not have got to this stage, but it is quite an experience to hear an unexpected point from the opposing team and attempt to generate a response on the fly.