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Clothing the Emperor Methodology

IA.  Anti-inflammatory Description & Polarizing Views or Questions 
Describe the issues in the least inflammatory language.  Identify important pre-requisites, conditions, stakeholders. 


e.g., How can blogs (and wikis and newsfeeds, and related tools) improve education?

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IB.  Polarizing Views or Questions 
Restate extreme positions and provocative questions clearly and respectfully.

E.G.,

1.  Blog Rage:  “…What's distressing about my recent experience is that a small number of highly partisan, energetic bloggers poisoned the debate instead of contributing to it...." more...

2.  "Blog Revolution ... a world inhabited by
content-producing ordinary people—also known as bloggers—means big changes. That's soon to be true for educators..." 
more...

3.  "Wasting Time on Blogs...blogs appear to be stealing time away from work ..." more...

4.  "Blogs are just making the information overload worse..."  more...

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