Debate on Global Warming and the Need of Green IT
[UPDATED March 26, 2015]
On Tues, March 31, we will have a class wide debate on the resolution:
“Be it resolved that Global warming is occurring on planet Earth and human endeavour is a significant cause of this warming.”
The debate will proceed as discussed below.
The team in favour of this resolution (the for, affirmative team) has the following members:
The team opposed to this resolution (the against, negative team) has the following members:
Structure of the debate :
We will use a common version of the Lincoln-Douglas Debate format. It starts with a statement of the resolution. The debater who agrees with the statement (the affirmative) begins the debate and it proceeds as follows:
1. Affirmative position debater presents constructive debate points. (6 minutes)
2. Negative position debater cross-examines affirmative points. (3 minutes)
3. Negative position presents constructive debate points. (7 minutes)
4. Affirmative position cross-examines negative points. (3 minutes)
*** Recess ***
5. Affirmative position offers first rebuttal (4 minutes)
6. Negative position offers first rebuttal and closing comments (6 minutes)
7. Affirmative position offers second rebuttal and closing comments (3 minutes)
This gives each team 16 minutes to present their points in an organized fashion.
A typical starter debate team format has six roles (participants) as shown below. This is meant as a guideline. You will have time to organize your teams at the beginning of the class prior to the debate.
· Lead Debater/Constructor -- presents the main points/arguments for his or her team's stand on the topic of the debate.
· Questioner/Cross-Examiner -- poses questions about the opposing team's arguments to its Question Responder.
· Question Responder -- takes over the role of the Lead Debater/Constructor as he or she responds to questions posed by the opposing team's Questioner/Cross-Examiner.
· Rebutter -- responds on behalf of his or her team to as many of the questions raised in the cross-examination as possible.
· Summarizer -- closes the debate by summarizing the main points of his or her team's arguments, especially attempts by the opposition to shoot holes in their arguments.
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As per the email send out on March 12 (see below), there are four debate teams.
Consider the team numbers to be 1 through 4 as you descend down the page
Team 1 [Xie et al.] (Affirmative) will debate Team 2 [Micheal et al.] (Negative) from 3:00-3:40
Team 3 [Li et al.] (Affirmative) will debate Team 4 [Jenkins et al.] (Negative) from 3:45-4:30
The debates will be tightly timed to allow us to complete this by 4:30pm.
*NOTE* Team 3 and 4 will not be allowed into the class room until the first debate has completed; I.e not before 3:40pm
There will be
a couple of judges for each debate. They will score each of the 7
sections of the debate with a score from 1-5.
Your groups total score will be the summation of the 7 partial scores.
Please ensure your team members are prepared to do their part.
In an effort to be fair to everyone who has worked diligently on the debate …
If a team member has not contributed to the debate effort prior to the actual debate, please have all active team members sign a piece of paper
indicating
the concern and drop it off to my office over the coming week. I
will approach the individual to discussion the situation.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
.. Danny Silver
Debate teams for March 31
Random # NAME Email address Affirm/ Neg
TEAM 1 - Affirmative
0.017838455 Xie,
Chong 123324x@acadiau.ca
0.022278482 Pineo, Lucas Matthew (Matthew) 122888p@acadiau.ca
0.097974923 Peters, Scott 111355p@acadiau.ca
0.240456828 Roberts, Daniel Burton 128826r@acadiau.ca
0.245952499 Lawson, Kelvin Kyle-Carlton 120750l@acadiau.ca
0.251609298 Werenka, Jeffory (Jeff) 116489w@acadiau.ca
0.260738136 Bearinger, Zach 098014b@acadiau.ca
TEAM 2 - Negative
0.309081639 Micheal, Sara
Habte 127907m@acadiau.ca
0.328267179 Ryan, Cameron Emmerson 116969r@acadiau.ca
0.433350314 Huang, Luxing 113287h@acadiau.ca
0.454586596 Francis, Keegan Lee 108278f@acadiau.ca
0.481736572 Fowler, Adam John 115805f@acadiau.ca
0.513718996 Shi, Guangle 101738s@acadiau.ca
TEAM 3 - Affirmative
0.534532364 Li,
Xiujie 123801l@acadiau.ca
Affirmative
0.540746931 Flemming, James William (Jimmy) 116643f@acadiau.ca
0.675963989 Zhao, Xiaoqi 105381z@acadiau.ca
0.722605218 Xie, Lei 123800x@acadiau.ca
0.74313511 Wang, Yang 086512w@acadiau.ca
0.764049451 Cox, Evan Daniel 113486c@acadiau.ca
TEAM 4 - Negative
0.770214783 Jenkins, Nathaniel
Ryan 105724j@acadiau.ca Negative
0.826321681 Shu, Qianli 099735s@acadiau.ca
0.835219998 Jenkins, Riley Mitchel 116585j@acadiau.ca
0.83779568 Warner, Lindsay M 113733w@acadiau.ca
0.986200845 Davis, Dwayne Allan Jason (DeeJay) 124571d@acadiau.ca
0.988507509 Lian, Jingtao 124389l@acadiau.ca