BRI eLearning | kbarben | Activity https://elearning.billofrightsinstitute.org/members/kbarben/activity/ Activity feed for kbarben. Sat, 18 Apr 2026 02:51:16 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=9.1.1 en-US 30 hourly 2 6e69ffde0f9c59f91b31d1052bb69372 kbarben replied to the topic TLR - C1 - Final Discussion 1 [ID 6764] in the forum TLR | Course 1 | Dialogue, Logic and Reasoning, and Civic Life https://elearning.billofrightsinstitute.org/forums/Prompt/tlr-c1-final-discussion-1-6764/#post-15255 Fri, 08 Mar 2024 19:22:57 +0000 I agree. I teach my students that we are not here to debate, because then the goal is to win and not to understand. The students lose sight of the thinking and consideration of different viewpoints. That is why I prefer to use Socratic Seminars and Constitutional Conversations.

My students have to always refer back to the Constitution, the…Read more

]]> 5bca18c51273991d4588eecaee023e7f kbarben replied to the topic TLR - C1 - Final Discussion 1 [ID 6764] in the forum TLR | Course 1 | Dialogue, Logic and Reasoning, and Civic Life https://elearning.billofrightsinstitute.org/forums/Prompt/tlr-c1-final-discussion-1-6764/#post-15254 Fri, 08 Mar 2024 19:18:58 +0000 I learned that when teaching our students to have civil dialogues, we should encourage them to go beyond to agree to disagree. The skills to move beyond that are critical to developing citizenship in the 21st century,

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