Homework 8 Due: 5 June
Next lecture, you are going to engage in the fourth role-play. The question of that role-play is: “Does uncertainty make it easier for people to ignore the risks of climate change?”
The contributing roles are: Natural Scientist, Social Scientist, Government Politician, Business Representative and Environmental NGO Representative.
Please prepare for the role-play as described below:
- Define your role more concretely and prepare a sign stating your definition. Bring this to the role-play.
- Prepare the arguments for your role in the role-play regarding the question in your role-group.
- Decide upon the tasks: main speaker and blogger.
Further, post a blog entry about the role-play (words>400, short title). Give your arguments, show differences, similarities, difficulties or processes you experienced… (This entry counts into the blog count. Use your name as author only.)
If you run into any problems, please contact Maike Scheffold (maike.scheffold@uni-hamburg.de) by May 31st.
For the bloggers Due: 2nd June
Post a blog entry about role-play 1. Give your arguments, show differences, similarities, difficulties or processes you experienced… (This entry counts into the blog count. Use your username as author only).
For further instructions please consult How to…add a blog post and How to…create a featured image on the blog.
If you run into any problems, please contact Maike Scheffold (maike.scheffold@uni-hamburg.de) by 31st May.
For the students supposed to comment Due: 5th June
Choose one of the blog posts of your fellow students and comment on it. You are free to choose on what you want to comment (argumentation, different viewpoint, your perspective, perspective of one of the roles involved in the role-play…). However, make sure to be constructive and positive. See Guidelines for discussions, How to… comment on a blog post and How to… give feedback on the blog.
If you run into any problems, please contact Maike Scheffold (maike.scheffold@uni-hamburg.de) by 3rd May.
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