Please Help Me

What a fascinating story. How did the students react? How old were they? Did the experience of losing the debate have a negative impact, or were they encouraged at finding out that they were on the right track? I'd love to have some more details, and consideration of the pedagogical issues.I gather from your home page that you are involved in a small tight night Christian community. Was the school in that community? Are you a regular teacher there?Mor, more; I must have more! -- Sylas[This message has been edited by Adminnemooseus, 02-24-2004]

Thanks muchly for the additional detail.My real name is in my profile here at EvC; and I have contributed under my real name for a long time through talk.origins. I have recently set up a new email address, which I now use also in talk.origins as well, and my hope is that "Sylas" will become my known pseudonym for contributing in these subjects. My identity is not a secret, so I have no major concerns about being "outed". However JonF is quite right that I am trying to establish a kind of distinct on-line identity. I've discussed this in talk.origins as well.One outstanding issue is my involvement with the talkorigins website and feedback column. After consultation with others involved in that website, I will probably maintain contributions there under my real name, not as Sylas.Pedagogy is the science of teaching. I have a professional interest since I am a lecturer in computing here in Australia. My formal qualifications are from a science faculty, but in fact they are nearly all maths and computing and automata theory. I don't consider myself a scientist. Most of my science knowledge is picked up by private reading.Cheers -- Sylas