Some says that debate is vital because it is an intellectual activity or perhaps a mental game.”It opens up and challenges current perspectives , encourages critical thinking .It also create discussions that could lead better nation building .” Stephanie Co, PSDC convenor quoted.
There are always various reasons why people debate.Some do it because they like speaking their minds and enjoy the thrill of debate. Others like it because of the opportunity to travel or to meet cute boys (girls) or to learn how to speak confidently in front of people.My personal reason why I debate is quite simple .I debate because I am very interested in discourse and debate is an avenue for to talk about vital matters in the status quo . Thus , it is an effective paradigm for people to listen to me.Hope you also recognize the role of debate in your life.
Many ideas and images may flicker in your mind when we talk about clash.I assume that you are thinking of arguments, debate and stance that may be in an informal or formal manner. Wayback in my childhood days,I remember how I used to argue with my mother regarding the issue of veggies.She always justify that eating veggies is good for me but I used to clash her stance.
As I trudge the road to maturity, I have been to exposed higher level of clashing ideas.It was not just about the issue of veggies.Its an arena of discourse ranging from different issues.Justifying better paradigm and weighing things out.This is the culture of debate. It’s all about clashing ideas .It is not only intended for law students and politicians but for common people of different walks of life as well.
Let us concede to the fact that we can’t deny debate’s extent of existence in our lives. With this I say that debate addresses the heart of English because it covers its fundamental concepts namely reading,writing,listening and speaking skills.Debate is also a good mental exercise that inculcates critical thinking and analysis that brings relevant questions to young minds.
How is my camp blog experience so far?what do you like best ? What do you like least?
This is it. After those series of lectures ranging from blogging technical aspects,contents and ethics, here we come to the very hectic portion of the camp blog training .
Tremendous workload were given to us that keeps us all busy while learning at the same time.Its good to know how camp blog promotes on – line wrting expertise to public high school sector.They find ways to converge the country’s promising high school teachers and students to bridge the digital divide.
In this way we don’t just talk we blog.What like least is to face to reality that two days to go, camp blog 1B experience will come to an end. However,there would always be ties and bonds that would link us through the net.
Research shows that humans’ number one fear is speaking.It even surpassed death.However,it is interesting to know that speaking became a governing passion of other people ,debating in particular as a medium of expressing clashing ideas.
In fact debating is not just intended to for law students but for other people for different walks of life as well. It is a verbal wrangling expressing two stance and clashing of ideas that may be in a informal or formal manner.In a very casual basis, informal debate happens in our daily lives.It may sound weird but we use the art of debate with out realizing the extent of its existence in our lives.
A concrete example of this is when kids try to argue with their parents proposing to increase their allowance. In a broader perspective debate formal debates is is an arena of discurse observing proper decorum and parliamentary procedures. A concrete scenario of politicians at Congress arguing on a certain bill to be ratified and students arguing on a propositon is a big picture of formal debate
.Debate also inculcates matterloading to feed up with vital informations.A speakers learners to be through and accurate.He learns to analyze; to distinguish between the vital and the unimportant. He learns the need of proving his statements; of supporting every statement with valid evidence and sound reasoning—and he learns to demand the same sort of proof for the statements of others. He learns to present ideas in a clear and effective manner, and in a way which wins others to his way of thinking. He learns to think under pressure, to “use his head” in a time of need, to make decisions quickly and accurately.
In a word, the essential point in any debating situation is that of convincing the listener that your side of the proposition is desirable.” Harrison Boyd Summers quoted.
As we continue to live and compete in a fast moving information technology, ischools camp blog carried on the torch of bridging the digital divide in the public high school sector.
english class with Prof. Espinosa
Promising students and teachers from different regions of the country with an appreciation of the benefits of digital learning converge at Mimosa Leisure Estate,Pampanga, spare for the best blog title.
Prior to the contest proper participants were given lectures from briliant speakers and lecturers who tackled blogging contents and technical aspects.
A debate is a contest, or, perhaps, like a game, where two or more speakers present their arguments intent on persuading one another. Men have been debating with one another since the beginning of time when the serpent first debated with Eve the benefits of eating certain fruits in the Garden. We shall limit ourselves here with discussing formal contest debating between educational institutions, or, in the world of homeschooling, between families that choose to bypass educational institutions and educate their children at home…read more
With vast features of wordpress application here comes the best feature that stand out. The moderation feature. For the control freak in all of us , WordPress provides an array of moderation options . You can moderate all comments before they appear on the blog,comments with specific words in them,comments posted from specific IP addresses and comments containing more than some specified number of links.I assume that I still have to explore wordpress as much as I can.I concede that up to this point I am still having a hard time dealing with it.Most of the time I get lost When it comes to the practical applications of the wordpress.These includes uploading of images and videos.
A debate is a contest, or, perhaps, like a game, where two or more speakers present their arguments intent on persuading one another. Men have been debating with one another since the beginning of time when the serpent first debated with Eve the benefits of eating certain fruits in the Garden. We shall limit ourselves here with discussing formal contest debating between educational institutions, or, in the world of homeschooling, between families that choose to bypass educational institutions and educate their children at home...read more
Eversince I am very interested on the art of argumentation and debate.I may seem ironical to consider the fact that based on a Reader’s Digest article speaking is the number one fear of a lot of people ,it even surpassed death,heights and exotic animals.
I concede to the fact that after four years of debating I am still a bit nervous to talk in front of a crowd. I admit that my knees trembled when I face the best and brilliant speakers of the country and heard constructive criticisms from worldclass adjudicators when I joined last year’s Philippine Schools Debate Championship.
Here’s another concession about debate it is really not easy to debate.You have to be aware of different issues ranging from various topics.You have to do matterloading through reading articles from credible printed materiasl.
No one could under estimate the adrenalin rush that debaters undergo from match ups until contest proper .This hardships are not reason to hinder me to do my passion and share it with other people as well.This drives me to help inculcate to others how useful debate is.
This includes improvement of oral,reading ,writing and speaking skills.It also inculcates social awareness,responsiveness and dynamism on this issues and more importantly critical thinking and analysis.Thus,it brings relevant questions to young minds through providing them an arena of discourse .
