Duplicate this page before you start, and write your answers into your own copy.

🗣️ 1. Six things people say about this school

None of the six statements below is here because it is true. They are here because each one is the sort of thing people actually say in this building.

You are not being asked whether you agree with them. You are being asked what would have to happen before this class agreed that the matter was settled.

✍️ Write here, on your own. Fill in the right-hand column for all six.

Somebody says...	What would have to happen before we agreed it was settled?
There are more than fifty nationalities in this school.
This school was founded in 1924.
The food in the canteen is bad.
Nobody in this room has ever lied to a teacher.
Students at this school work harder than students at other schools in Geneva.
Phones should be switched off during lessons.

🗂️ 2. Sort them

Three piles. Every statement goes in exactly one of them.

Pile A: we could settle this today, if we could be bothered.
Pile B: we could settle it, but only once we had agreed what the words mean and what would count as an answer.
Pile C: checking will not settle it, however long we check for.

✍️ Write here, on your own.

Write out your three piles.
Which statement was hardest to place, and what made it hard?
Somebody tells you that everything in pile B is "just a matter of opinion". Do you agree? Give your reason.

📱 3. One claim, two studies

Here is a claim that lands in pile B for almost everybody: phones in school make students learn less.

🗣️ 1. Six things people say about this school

🗂️ 2. Sort them

Write out your three piles.

Which statement was hardest to place, and what made it hard?

Somebody tells you that everything in pile B is "just a matter of opinion". Do you agree? Give your reason.

📱 3. One claim, two studies