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Tool Guidelines
1. Log in to project.
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Teacher ID:
Team ID:
Password: |
2. Click the project name to enter the case.
3. Working with your partner, determine which of your team’s pieces of evidence are the most credible.
4. Input your team’s 10 most credible pieces of evidence.
Complete the following for each of the chosen pieces of evidence:
a. Input the summarizing sentence in the Summary section.
b. Input the quote in the Explanation section.
c. Input the URL address in the Source section.
d. Rate it.
| Rating |
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| Author |
Individual |
Individual or Expert |
Creditable Author |
Expert in the field |
Expert in the field |
| Sponsoring Organization |
None |
Biased Organization |
Unbiased Organization |
CredibleOrganization |
CredibleOrganization |
| How strong is the quote? |
Based on opinion |
Opinion based slant |
Gives both pros and cons of the usage |
Factually based |
Facts that are statistically supported |
5. Discuss with your partner and create a claim that is supported by your evidence not your opinion.
Choose one of the following statements for your claim and insert your issue in the blank:
___________ should be freely used without limitations.
___________ should be used with the following limitations …
___________ should be banned from use.
6. Drag each piece of evidence one at a time over to the area supporting (green) or not supporting (red) the claim.
a. Discuss with your partner how well the piece of evidence supports or doesn’t support the claim.
b. Rate it.
c. Write a through explanation based on your discussion.
7. Continue inputting the remaining nine pieces of evidence as you did in Step 6.
8. Write a through explanation for why you chose your claim.
9. Finish by ranking how strongly your claim is supported.
| Ranking |
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| Number of pieces supporting evidence |
0-1 |
2-3 |
4-5 |
6-7 |
8-10 |
| Number of pieces not supporting evidence |
8-10 |
6-7 |
4-5 |
2-3 |
0-1 |
| How strong is the quality of supporting evidence |
The supporting evidence has a quality rating of 3 or less. |
The pieces of supporting evidence have a quality rating of 3 or less. |
Three or more pieces of supporting evidence have a quality rating of 4 or higher. |
Four or more pieces of supporting evidence have a quality rating of 4 or higher. |
Six or more pieces of supporting evidence have a quality rating of 4 or higher. |
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