Aim: How can a virtual debate lead us to ascertain who’s actions were more egregious (outstandingly bad, shocking) in violating the code of xenia?
During class, we had a whole class discussion about why people enjoy getting into debates.
Everyone who shared had roughly the same answer, it was to show, or prove the other person their view, or their point of view in a situation. I agree with these answers, but I would also add that people also want to try and maybe persuade other people to believe what they believe is right. That is why people enjoy getting into debates.
We watched a video about how we can improve the way we can have a debate, discussion asynchronously.
In this video, we learned that having a discussion leads to understanding different perspectives about the topic we are learning. This is one way students teach one another. Another thing we learned in this video is to post your discussion early, and read other people’s posts. Having your discussion posted early will help develop the discussion and lead to better responses. Reading other people’s posts will prevent repetition between all the posts. While writing the posts, we have to be clear on what we are trying to discuss, otherwise people will get the wrong idea and not interpret it the right way. Referring to other people’s posts will help others understand the perspective of what you understand and what you may agree or disagree with. Lastly, we learned that we have to be respectful to one another, since it is a discussion, and it’s for learning purposes only.
We have been given a pdf that shows the rules and how we should answer each others’ posts.
Writing-Forum-Posts-and-Replies-1.pdf
Debate Chart
After going through the rules and how we should answer each other’s post, we have been instructed to complete this chart that would help build up our debate to pick whether we believed Odysseus was in the right, or Polyphemus.
7: Cyclops vs Odysseus Debate Chart
In this document, you can see the questions that were provided to help build up our debate.
We worked with our group members to help fill out these charts, then we went on our own paths to see which side we believed was right.
Conclusion
What did I learn?
Today, I learned how to have a proper asynchronous debate, or discussion for our discussion on Polyphemus and Odysseus. Having proper etiquette when doing such activities really helps because we know how to respect one’s view, being able to reply in an appropriate way and have a good and learning debate. I also learned that the two characters, Odysseus and Polyphemus, are really similar in certain ways. They both have a somewhat selfish point of view considering that Odysseus wanted to see the Cyclops knowing that he is endangering his men, and Polyphemus for being rather scary to the men since they were in his cave without him knowing in the first place.
Why did I learn it?
I believe that I learned this skill and etiquette because we need to educate ourselves on what is alright to say on the internet and what is not. If someone sees a situation different from another person and that person starts throwing insults, that's how drama starts and that isn’t good. Learning how to properly have a debate will protect others' perspectives and it’ll be easier to learn something new since no one will be judged for it.
How will I use what I learned?
I will probably use this skill throughout my life. Being able to have an open discussion will help me learn more things and express my perspective in a way other people may not have seen before. Using this skill will help throughout life like at a big project when I get a job. Having to work with a lot of people isn’t going to be easy, and having different opinions will be easy to express if we use these skills properly.
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