Saturday, March 12, 2016

Logical Fallacies with Comic Creation

In addition to the list option for the logical fallacies project Hubby is doing, I also came up with a way for students to identify the logical fallacy and illustrate how it affects the audience. It is a pretty straightforward assignment:
  1. View one of the 2016 presidential primary debates for one of the two major parties, Democrats or Republicans. Read the transcript of your selected debate. Links to the transcripts of the debates are available at this site: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/debates.php.
  2. Locate fallacies committed by the various candidates.
  3. Go to http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/ and create a 4 panel comic
  4. Title it the logical fallacy being use
  5. In the first panel, label the speaker and write the logical fallacy
  6. In the three subsequent panels, label potential audiences (the intended audience as well as those who would watch the debate to be an informed voter), and indicate the reactions the logical fallacy would have upon each



Teachers could even easily differentiate using either the list assignment or this one. I would suggest 5 logical fallacies found and put on a list of 10 for the listing OR do three of the comics like the example.

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