"SEE/SEEdebate has provided me with the resources to expose my students to current events in a new and exciting way. The opportunity to interact and debate with peers around the country has been invaluable. I cannot thank you enough; you really have put together something remarkable."
Josh Gagnon, ME SEEdebate Teacher
"Your site is very well thought out and I see enormous potential. My whole department is very excited."
Michael Stapleton, CT SEEdebate Teacher
"I really enjoyed using your site -- it really lends itself to creative assignments. Many of my kids expressed that they enjoyed SEEdebate in a blind questionnaire they completed. Therefore, I plan on continuing to incorporate this next year. Overall, great job. I would recommend this to any teacher!"
Pamela AuCoin, NY SEEdebate Teacher
SEEdebate Students
"This is addictive"
SEEdebate students
“It's a pretty awesome site, and I know I actually don't mind this homework.”
CRBasketball33, SEEdebate Student
“The website is a very good idea. Many students enjoy logging on and being able to express their views.”
dbaugh, SEEdebate Student
“Ever since I started posting on SEEdebate I’ve pretty much have been hooked. When I first got on and after, SEEdebate was awesome. I never realized how much you could enjoy arguing with others over articles, even ones about ourselves. YEEAAAHHHH!”
Cromdawg, SEEdebate Student
Supporters of SEEdebate
"By using technology to bring students and teachers into contact with each other, SEE adds a powerful component to active learning. Social Studies learning is no longer confined to discussion with a student in the next row; students and teachers have access to the views of students from any part of the globe. SEE’s primary goal is to contribute to the effort to build responsible citizenship into the curriculum.
This imaginative and thoughtful approach to integrating citizenship into Social Studies teaching deserves your support."
Thomas P. Weinland, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Curriculum and Instruction
Neag School of Education, University of Connecticut
"I see alot of flash, but not alot of substance. You have substance."
Cheryl Phelps, Helix Charter HS, La Mesa, CA
"Teachers know what teachers need."
Rebecca B. Griffith, Avery County HS, Newland, NC
Educational Quotes
“We close the citizen participation gap and related achievement gaps in America only when our schools help students learn that their minds, their choices, and their wisdom make a difference in their lives and the lives of others, and provide them with real opportunities to exercise and practice that work."
Carl Glickman, PhD, Convener, The Forum for Education and Democracy
"Since there is no single set of abilities running throughout human nature, there is no single curriculum which all should undergo. Rather, the schools should teach everything that anyone is interested in learning."
John Dewey
"Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier."
John Dewey
"I believe that the individual to be educated is a social individual, and that society is an organic union of individuals. If we eliminate the social factor from the child we are left only with an abstraction; if we eliminate the individual factor from society, we are left only with an inert and lifeless mass.
John Dewey
