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Task 2: Sharing and discussion

Time for sharing and discussion

When you consider that you have already an overview and a minimal understanding of the topic you chose, it is time to start sharing with your course mates your ideas and comments about what your study and inquiry has provided you.

But before detailing what you have to do in this stage, remember two things:

• Sharing and discussion stage aims to encourage and develop your critical thinking through conversation and debate with your peers. That means that all the participants of this course must involve yourselves in an fluid and animated discussion in which you exchange views and impressions on the various topics in a respectful and dialoguing way
• The Reading and inquiry stage (Task 1) and the Sharing and discussion stage (Task 2) overlap each other, so you can start sharing and discussing with your peers even before you consider to have read enough on the topic studied

Instructions

To start this second stage, do the following:

1. Drawing on your new knowledge, post your ideas on this topic on WEnotes, Twitter or Facebook and include the hash tag #awip15 in your post, for example:
   • I find this topic... #awip15; or
   • I think this approach can be... #awip15; or
   • What I like about this view... #awip15; or
   • What I don't like about this topic... #awip15; or
   • Whatever you want to express your ideas, comments, assessments, pros, cons and insights that your topic has inspired you
2. For two or three days in midweek, visit frequently the WEnotes page and our Facebook closed group page. Read your colleagues comments and reflect on them, and then respond to them with the results of your own reflections. Thus, you will further define your own point of view; a viewpoint that is not only yours, but part of the collective thinking of the whole group, thus enriching your perspective
3. If any of your colleagues writes something about a resource from their inquiry, and you think this may be of interest or can expand your perspective, do not hesitate to ask him or her the web address of this resource and read, listen or watch for yourself the information provided
4. Finally, remember that our discussion can lead us to new lines of inquiry, so we should be open to see and research on those approaches which could lend some fruit