Calendars, Updates, & Tubs and Timers
New Team Calendar is up.
Go to Calendar page to see it.
Updates:
Ways to convince your parents debate is important here. (Lots of outside web-linked research. Good stuff).
Planetebate.com has new free files. Go, see. discuss.
General Poverty data HERE
Tubs and Timers:
This is for current team members. RSVP HERE
You bring nothing but you, a timer, and a paint pen (color of your choice). Come to G65 @ 4 on Tuesday 8/11/2009.
(Coach has the pizza and bevs covered peeps)
What would be helpful? Well, obviously tubs, timers, and paper.
Also-
highlighters/ gnomes/ blues and dues/ colored paper for K
Be ready for SPAR debates on policy/ LD topics!
(Them’s fightin’ words!!)
Any alum. that get this and aren’t already off at college, please stop by! We’d love to see you again.
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Taken from Cross-x.com but I LOVE this idea:
Digital Divide Debate for policy:
• Telemedicine. The literature on ITC for health is pretty sweet. And we know that impact space is pretty big as well. (if you get modeling, you can even get to a readiness story with AIDS)
• Also I wonder if the cards exist that telemedicine can help solve the nursing crisis.
• You can also get into interesting debates on identity (the internet’s role in identity formation + transformation–this is actually a K argument)
• I’m curious what the individual impacts for solving rural poverty vs. inner city poverty in terms of the digital divide might be.
• the possibilities of random arguments like deschooling and the internet as resistance to power + hierarchy. also makes direct democracy (although the refs. c/p arguably might solve better–short term vs. long term)
• the implications of Health 2.0 and Government 2.0 (or rather democracy 2.0)
• Irony (gloablalization + mcDonaldization + technoligization good)
Various Negative Arguments and Strategies:
• Counterplans (insert the word “ITC for …..” in google to solve individual advantages)
• Counterplans: can Verizon or Bill Gates do the aff?
• Information Overload K (this gets into a critique of modernity, the banking model of education, and the very idea of what a “useful education” is)
(MY FAVE)
• Internet Panacea/Tech Panacea K (with Heidegger like impacts possible, but not necessary)
• One Lap Top Per Child K (there is a little bit of criticm of one lap top per child which applies to this aff. its all based on globalization bad–in fact its globalization bad in drag. Although, I think you can make a very nuanced argument that you aren’t taking a stance on globalization–but rather the absolute free spread of information. You could also make the “free internet culture bad for children, kids” argument.)
• Fake Communities K-digital communities are fake
Finally, there are a couple internet bad arguments based on the works of…
• Nicholas Carr (the big switch: rewiring the world from edison to google)
• Andrew Keen (the cult of the amateur)
• and more general discussion of the effects of technology by authors that are referecing Marshall McLuhan.
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Party on, Wayne.
