desertflower Posted August 26 Share Posted August 26 Hi, Does anyone know how to make this a fun book based on the Fallacy Detective book for a co-op? We have about 10 kids. Any ideas is appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caffeineandbooks Posted August 27 Share Posted August 27 We used Art of Argument in a group setting last year. I put time into finding examples of fallacies, including funny memes, ads, video clips etc. A highlight for the kids was enjoying those and then identifying the fallacy. We also had the kids create their own book of fallacies - I photocopied some print based examples for them to paste in, and they also generated their own examples. Sometimes we listened to 5 minute podcast episodes at https://www.filteritthroughabraincell.com/. She often gave good examples but she also used plenty of fallacies herself in talking about them, and the kids enjoyed feeling smug when they found those 🙂 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desertflower Posted August 27 Author Share Posted August 27 Those are great ideas! Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomeAgain Posted August 27 Share Posted August 27 I made symbols for my kid: red fish, a finger pointing, a paper doll silhouette..actual physical representation of red herrings, tu quoque, ad hominem..and then as we went through the exercises he'd either hold up the appropriate one, match it to a paper slip, or, as he got more confident, I'd mix them up and give him more than one type of fallacy he'd have to identify. FD has a site with ideas like this: Board game, make a fallacy poster, and identifying based on campaign videos. The one good thing is that campaigns do offer a ton of fallacy examples, but you don't want to use anything recent or relevant, and these are old enough to get around that. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desertflower Posted August 27 Author Share Posted August 27 8 hours ago, HomeAgain said: I made symbols for my kid: red fish, a finger pointing, a paper doll silhouette..actual physical representation of red herrings, tu quoque, ad hominem..and then as we went through the exercises he'd either hold up the appropriate one, match it to a paper slip, or, as he got more confident, I'd mix them up and give him more than one type of fallacy he'd have to identify. FD has a site with ideas like this: Board game, make a fallacy poster, and identifying based on campaign videos. The one good thing is that campaigns do offer a ton of fallacy examples, but you don't want to use anything recent or relevant, and these are old enough to get around that. Thanks! These are great ideas too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quarter Note Posted August 27 Share Posted August 27 @desertflower, I don't have anything to add, but I just wanted to let you know that I asked my son your question, because we loved Fallacy Detective around here, and he said, "That sounds like a lot of fun, to do it with a whole bunch of other kids!" Have fun! Please let us know how it works out. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desertflower Posted August 28 Author Share Posted August 28 1 hour ago, Quarter Note said: @desertflower, I don't have anything to add, but I just wanted to let you know that I asked my son your question, because we loved Fallacy Detective around here, and he said, "That sounds like a lot of fun, to do it with a whole bunch of other kids!" Have fun! Please let us know how it works out. That's great to know. Thanks! Will try to remember to give an update! 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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