A healthy debate can teach young people to find collaborative and creative solutions beyond a polarised world. Teaching young people strong debate skills enables them to identify credible and worthwhile perspectives, and to incorporate those into their opinion. Debate expert and author of Hacking Digital Learning Strategies: 10 Ways to Launch EdTech Missions in Your Classroom, Shelly Sanchez Terrell, notes that the key to teaching good debate skills is to ensure pupils stay on issues, rather than straying to personal attacks.