Socratic Seminar

In the socratic seminar the participants started debating about facts that each one says. They started talking like if they were at court. I liked the way each person defended his/her ideas. Our teacher helped the dialog forward by asking us more question to reflect on. He gave us more complex situations to think about rather than the simple examples that we gave. When there was disagreement between two people the seminar would lapse into a debate/discussion.

Fortunately, the group was very mature in handling this because they took turns sharing their ideas and supporting them with details. There was almost no interruption in the seminar. People were listened too most often. Jehanne Aghzadi and Yousra Bouftas dominated the conversation because they knew a lot about the cause and effects of societies and they did further research to learn more about them. This means they had true facts that they based their ideas on. Though Jehanne and Yousra somehow dominated the conversation there was no interference of why they talked a lot and said what they said. They were listened to very well.

Evidence that I saw of people building up on other's ideas is that they didn't repeat what someone else said. They listened well to other people's ideas and developed them by giving new accurate suggestions. My understanding of each EQ has changed after listening to what people said in the seminar because they had great facts that influenced my ideas. This lead me to think and reflect differently on each EQ. Some of my opinions were changed by real life situations that the people in the seminar gave as examples. They strongly supported their ideas and this is what lead my to change various of my opinions.

The best part of the seminar was when you won the argument with your good supportive reasons. You felt smart after that. The worst part of the seminar is that we were sitting in the sun and it was getting too HOT because some of us were wearing black. This made it hard for us to concentrate. What I would like to do differently as a participant the next time I am in a seminar is to have the questions that we will talk about before hand in order to investigate furthermore on them specifically.