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-----Original Message-----
From: Forum for Physics Educators [mailto:PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu]On Behalf
Of Jack Uretsky
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 2:50 PM
To: PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu
Subject: Re: student debates on pseudoscience
You take the pro side.
Regards,
Jack
On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, Ben Crowell wrote:
I'm teaching a conceptual physics course at a
community college, and would like to have my students
debate each other on issues related to pseudoscience.
Can anyone give me any tips on what might work? I can
easily imagine that if I don't set it up correctly,
the results could be bad. For instance, I could ask
one student to present the "pro" side on astrology,
and another to take the "anti." The "anti" student
doesn't prepare, does a lousy job, and the class then
votes that astrology is a real science.