About Power League
Create your own leagues or use our ready–made ones — Power League is a free, versatile resource for actively engaging people with topics and positioning potentially challenging issues in a fun, easy way.
Power League can be used by everyone to take part in our public leagues, or you can set up your own custom leagues. We've provided 5 important leagues to get you going, which you can copy and customise, or you can use our easy wizard to set up your own. Your leagues are private to you and can be shared with your friends using an individual league URL and password.
With Power League you can
- Use our ready–made leagues to start fun, challenging debates
- Create your own custom leagues, useful for any topic from class projects to whole school redesign consultations
- Share your custom leagues with visitors that you invite
- See our Teacher guide for lesson plans and ideas to get you going
How it works
The league allows students to cast votes, individually, in which they choose between two competing people, ideas or things. In a discussion on climate change, for example, they could vote for which they thought was the bigger cause of global warming: aeroplane emissions or volcanic activity — discuss!
Each student chooses repeatedly from random pairs. By repeatedly casting votes, the students create a league, ranked in order of the most powerful, important, popular or influential. The results are often unexpected — students are surprised to see how their peers voted — and a good starting point for discussion. Why does this person have more power than another person? What makes this pop star more influential than that politician? How is this power used?
The league was originally designed as a playful way to explore the nature of power, and the students who used it initially voted on questions of who was more powerful, or who they would like to see have more power. But it has now been adapted so that students can vote on any subject: which is the bigger cause of global warming, for example; or which is the more important invention?
The opportunities are endless with our easy–to–use wizard helping you create your own league on anything you like.
Original idea
Power League is based on the original World Power League concept developed by Lucy Kimbell, Barby Asante, George Grinsted and Rachel Collinson in collaboration with Futurelab. More information on this project can be found here: http://www.futurelab.org.uk/projects/power_league
