Braincandy: A cloud-based platform providing students authentic, engaging, and safe spaces to articulate and refine oral argumentation

New standards call on educators to facilitate oral argumentation in the classroom, but many educators do not know how to create learning environments that support equitable and accessible spaces to share half-formed ideas and argue about their merits. In this deep dive interactive session tutorial, participants learned to use Braincandy, a cloud-based pedagogicallydriven application, to provide authentic, engaging, and safe spaces for their students to refine their arguments. This hands-on two-hour interactive session featured opportunities for participants to develop class material for themselves and a chance to practice using Braincandy to facilitate oral argumentation. Finally, on the basis of these experiences, participants played a role designing the next iteration of Braincandy by discussing the needs of the community regarding argumentation in the classroom and how to address them with tool like Braincandy.