Welcome to the 2015 Mean Green K Lab! We're very excited to be leading the lab and trying some new teaching and learning styles! If you're part of the lab please leave a comment to introduce yourself. For those who want to get a head start on reading about the topic I suggest looking over “Race, surveillance, and empire” it can be found here: http://isreview.org/issue/96/race-surveillance-and-empire
Looking forward to meeting everyone!
Hey, I'm Sean Anderson. I'm an urban debater from East Early College High School in the big city of Houston, Texas. I've debated for 3 year; one in World Schools Debate and the other two in Policy Debate.
ReplyDeleteIn terms of debating, I'm here at this lab because:
a) my lovely debate partner (Jesse) and I decided to go here, and as our teamwork is superb, I would like to improve our teamwork and coordinate our debating styles to be really awesome and simultaneously terrifying at debate.
b) while I have done critical debate during my two years of high school, I have not gotten a particular feel into what Ks I really like and wish to specialize in, nor the strategic grounding of running Ks and/or any other argument in Policy Debate, so I figured that a K lab was the perfect place to figure this issue out.
As a sort of reference, I'm interested in Jungian Typology (the works of Jung, Myers-Briggs, and the Russian Socionics, with Gulenko, Ocharov, etc..) specifically because of its importance in the psychological makeup of humanity and how it affects us, but I'm willing to diversify to other types of authors I have not heard of that feature that sort of argument.
I'm also very interested in the strategic possibility that debate offers, and I would definitely like to explore that avenue, in the sense of learning how to properly harness arguments, and how kritikal arguments can factor into that. I want to really be a part of the 'debate is a chess game' metaphor, to understand that, and use it to improve both my debate skills as well as learning how to factor that into my debate and to hopefully get a lot better.
Other than that, improvement of basic, yet key skills, such as cross-examination, flowing, cutting cards, spreading (standard policy skills) is another one of my goals, just to improve my debating a lot more, but other than that, those are basically my goals for this debate camp, and I'm really hoping that I get a ton of improvement and maybe a change of perspectives (as those are always useful) from these 3 weeks!
Hello my name is Jesse Herrera i am from East Early College High School and i feel like since it is a Kritik lab we should talk about ourselves and who we are in the debate space and figure out who we are as a debater. so i think we should be exposed to a lot of different arguments and figure out what we are most in tuned to. we should i am really interested in Nietzsche because of my past experience, which i will be open to share in order to explain my beliefs. Nietzsche said " and those who were seen dancing were though to be insane by those who could hear the music" i feel like in the Kritik Lab we should find our music, metaphorically, then find who we are as debaters most of all then we can go into the skill practices after we find out what we believe in and why we believe in it.
ReplyDeleteHi I'm Daisy and I go to College Prep in CA. I'm a rising junior and this is my second year of debate.
ReplyDeleteWhat's up my name is Crayton I go to Law Magnet in Dallas, TX debated in middle school and am a rising senior.
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