Tag: Michael Andersen

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Kicking off the 2025-2026 Ethics Bowl Season with a Revised Case Analysis Guide

Coach Michael Andersen recently updated the case analysis guide he shared here in 2023 with several improvements. Inspired by Dr. Sean Riley’s video, tips that stood out to me included step 2: “What kind of case is this?”, the invitation to radically emphasize with stakeholders, and the concentric circles visual. It also links to an updated case summary template.

Coach Michael considers these works in progress. But as far as I’m concerned, they’re more than good enough to begin using immediately, which is a good thing since both the IEB and NHSEB case sets recently went live. If you haven’t reviewed them already, the 2025-2026 IEB regionals case set is here and the NHSEB set here. Some super cool topics this season. More on the cases soon.

Enjoy, thanks coach Michael, and happy Ethics Bowl season kickoff!

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Continuing the Conversation: a Post-Bowl Discussion Topic and Guide

If your regional Bowl is over and your team didn’t advance, that’s no reason to disband. Thanks to Coach Michael Andersen, you can easily pivot into Ethics Club mode with this ready-made discussion guide. It’s even tied back to a couple of old Ethics Bowl cases. And if you’d appreciate more off-season resources like this, post a comment or shoot me an email at matt (at) mattdeaton.com! Perhaps we can accommodate.

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2024-2025 NHSEB Regional Case 3 It Tastes Like Dog Food Study Guide with Bonus AI Script Experiments

Here’s a really nice study guide from Coach Michael Andersen with two superb generative AI experiments on the case, as well as a bonus guide on evaluating sources on controversial topics.

Mr. A is going above and beyond per usual! And I think the generative AI engagement stuff is especially cool. Give his strategies a try with other cases and let us know what’s working, what isn’t, etc.