The purpose of the website is to provide easily accessible resources for anyone who wants to use philosophical conversation as a method for either lecturing, or just for fun.
Philosophical conversations test people´s ability to go in depth, see contexts, think critically and relate different topics to society and their own lives. Moreover, it can train people to see things from different perspectives and exchange thoughts in a respectful atmosphere.
The philosophical conversation is thus in line with the objectives of in-depth learning and interdisciplinary teaching and is an arena for democratic formation and critical thinking.
The target group for the website is primarily teachers who teach at grades 8-10, but the material could also be used in high school.
The activities have been prepared in connection with the curriculum for moral and ethical subjects, but the topics are interdisciplinary and relevant in many subjects, such as social studies, Norwegian, English, science and electives such as Democracy in practice and International cooperation.
In addition, the resources can be useful for anyone who wants to invite philosophical conversations with people of all ages.
Contents
The main part of this website, «Moral conundums», contains, as the title implies, short moral conundrums. They require a dialogue-based form of teaching for the optimal experience, but similar results can be gained in many other ways - be creative!
To recap, on that page are a few riddles that can be used directly in the teaching, or that can be adapted for your own use. You can navigate with the menu in the top-left corner of the screen.
The Norwegian Directorate of Education (Utdanningsdirektoratet) have since 2018 emphasized «ethical reflection», being «able to take other people´s perspective» and «exploring existential questions and answers» as central elements in moral and ethical subjects.
I hope that this site´s contents can be a useful tool for creating good classroom dialogues, or any good form of dialogue in general.
My Instagram page
I have my own Instagram page where I will publish learning material and other programming-related things every now and then. I will be open for feedback, discussion, and questions regarding anything within reason.
Chances are I am going to post a bunch of completely random things on that page, both on- and off-topic. If you are up for that, the link is on the «Contact» page. Have fun getting tired of me.
Changelog
[26/01/2021, 00:27:16]: I exist. [29/01/2021]: Added «Home» page layout with unresponsive hamburger menu. [02/02/2021]: Added «Contact» page with wheel. Bug fixes to Hamburger menu and added text to «Home» page. [03/02/2021]: Bug fixes to hamburger menu. [04/02/2021]: Bug fixes to hamburger menu. Changed «Home» page layout.
[05/02/2021]: Bug fixes and opacity change to hamburger menu. Added «About» page with responsive text slider. [06/02/2021]: Added «Moral conundrums» page with gradient backround, fish model, bubble effect and lens flare. Added background and text to «Contact» page.
[07/02/2021]: Added compass G.I.F. to «Home» page. Changed box colours, background, title, and sample text to «About» page. Added animation with scrolltrigger, sample text, and fish skeleton to «Moral conundrums» page. Added responsive hamburger menu to all pages.
[08/02/2021]: Added text and pasted Changelog into «About» page. Added links to wheel in «Contact» page. Fixed links on all hamburger menus. [10/02/2021]: Added moral conundrums to «Moral conundrums» page.
[13/02/2021]: Added moral conundrums to «Moral conundrums» page. [14/02/2021]: Added moral conundrums and adjusted text size to fit the screen on «Moral conundrums» page. [15/02/2021]: Adjusted text size to fit the screen on «Moral conundrums» page. Added links to wheel in «Contact» page.
[02/03/2021]: Swapped «Moral conundrums» page with scrolltrigger fish with responsive 3D waterfall and scrolltrigger text boxes.
[03/03/2021]: Bug fixes. Imported text from old «Moral conundrums» page to new «Moral conundrums» page. Changed backgrounds and styled «About» page and «Contact» page to fit the low polygonal theme of the new «Moral conundrums» page.