How To Use This In The Classroom DebateGraph is being used in the classroom to help students of all ages learn and reason, individually and collaboratively, about topics across the curriculum.
Students can create maps live in the classroom and/or build and visualise their growing understanding of topics across a term.
The content of the maps can be also be presented automatically in the form of a linear written essays, papers or reports.
Key Info DebateGraph is also being used in a wide variety of contexts beyond education; including the media, government, and social and commercial enterprises.
Pros DebateGraph is free, cloud-based, available across all platforms, and helps students to develop key life skills.
Cons As DebateGraph offers a rich set of features designed to helps students to think about, and visualize, complex topics, the short-term learning curve may be steeper than for (some) other categories of tools.
The Official Description DebateGraph is an award-winning, free, cloud-based web service that helps people collaborate in thinking through complex issues by building and sharing interactive maps of domains of knowledge from multiple perspectives. DebateGraph is being used in over 100 countries and helping people reason and learn together more effectively in many different fields, including: education, health, governance, media, publishing, environment, conflict resolution, conferences, group facilitation, and public consultation and planning. Thereâs no limit to the number of people who can collaborate on maps, and everyone is welcome to start building and sharing free public and private maps on any topic. |