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How should educators distinguish between misinformation, legitimate dissent, emerging knowledge, and genuinely unsupported claims?

Hosted by votesmash_gregory @votesmash_gregory
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Opening claims from the host

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Academic and scientific claims should remain open to questioning, criticism, and revision when new evidence provides good reason to reconsider them.

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Universities should distinguish between legitimate intellectual disagreement and claims that lack sufficient evidence to support them.

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A university can unintentionally contribute to misinformation when institutional consensus, disciplinary assumptions, or ideological commitments discourage serious examination of contrary evidence.

Aug

11

30 minute tour

Scoreboard

Tour timeline

Survey
Claims
0 min 15m — survey ends 28m — claims close 30m

How it works

  1. 1 Tour Profile Survey
    A short set of questions grounds the room. Takes two minutes. Earns back up to 30% of the ticket price.
  2. 2 Claims
    Make your best claim(s) in up to 200 characters. Clear, plain and compelling language. No jargon. Directly addressing the Tour title, Lead Question and/or Topic. Add a Confidence Rating to track Prediction Accuracy and for a chance to win a prize.
  3. 3 Vote
    Read this Tour's claims. Vote: Agree, Disagree, or Needs Work. Claims that reach 85% agreement become a Tour consensus and everybody wins a reward.
  4. 4 Deliberate & Persuade
    Challenge claims, refine ideas and respond to objections. Participants in a live event Tour conversation attempt to persuade the Audience and to strengthen various claims until broader agreement emerges. Audience live chat comments welcome too.
  5. 5 Results
    What the room agreed on. Rewards for claim winners and all participants present when one or more MVCs was reached. Prize pool distributed to leading or unique participant contributions.