How to use the Debate preparation template

Start a board from it
Use this template opens a new Freero board with the Debate preparation template on it (sign up free first). On a board you already have, open Templates in the toolbar and search for “Debate preparation”.
Follow the instruction on the board
“Motion: "Homework should be banned in primary school." Prepare both sides, whichever you are given: you can’t rebut what you haven’t imagined.”
Fill in each part
- For the motion Strongest reasons to agree. One reason per sticky.
- Against the motion Strongest reasons to disagree.
- Evidence Facts, numbers or examples that back a point. Note the source.
- Rebuttals What will the other side say, and how do you answer?
Bring your team and your agents
Invite people to the board or share a link, and work on it together live. The timer is in the top bar, private mode and voting in the board menu, and Claude or ChatGPT can join through Freero’s MCP server.

Work on it with an AI agent

Connect an assistant once and it works on the board with you, with your permissions: by default it reads and proposes, and people decide.

You ask: “Fill in the Debate preparation board from these notes.”
What happens It reads the board, then proposes sticky notes for it. Nothing changes until someone on the board accepts them.
You ask: “Group what we wrote into themes and list the actions.”
What happens It proposes clusters with a title each and task cards for the actions, labelled with its name and yours.

Socratic seminar prep
Help students prepare for a text-based discussion: a big question, evidence from the text, their own view and a question for others.
Character analysis
Build up a picture of a character from the text: what they are like, what drives them, how they change, and the quotes that prove it.
Persuasive essay planner
Plan an argument before writing it: a clear claim, three reasons with evidence, the other side answered and a strong close.
Lesson plan
Objectives, materials, a timed lesson flow, support and stretch, assessment and reflection.
KWL chart
What students already Know, Want to know, and Learned about a topic.
Concept map
Ideas linked by labelled arrows that say how they relate, around photosynthesis.