Guest Lecturer: Simon Housego
At this workshop, the lecturer has provided a range of information, questionary techniques and activities that focus on the understanding of the upcoming assessment #4 and contentious issues as follows:
Subject Outline for 36200
Learning Objectives
Assessment task 4: Arguments and Evidence: The Data Story
What is a Contentious Issue (CI)?
Statement or Question?
Kind, Scale, and Topicality (KiST )
What would change your mind?
Group Activities
Identify 6 Contentious Issues.
State 2 of chosen CIs as
-a Question, or
-a Statement
Categorise of a Contentious Issue
Kind
Scale
Topicality
Explain
Choose 2 CIs and prepare a short statement
Explaining why the issue is contentious.