Socratic Seminar Notes:

o Learn from your OWN mistakes.
o Must be a happy medium between doing things on your own and having your parent’s guidance. This will teach you what works and what doesn’t work
o How can you take bits of wisdom and apply them to real life?
o What value does wisdom have if you’re not using it?
o Majority of classrooms have a ‘testing environment’. It is more helpful when teachers show other ways to connect the same material to our lives and how to use it later in life. (building blocks)
o Apply practical knowledge to your actions.

1. I think, especially in college when we are taking specific classes for our job, that applying what you know to real life will be necessary to prepare ourselves for our future career. Just like before you can become a surgeon you have to have an internship, and teachers must student teach. You’re not doing it for a grade, you’re doing it because your goal is to become the surgeon or teacher etc. and you must apply your knowledge or you’ll never reach your goal.
2. Relating the material you know to know to pass any class or test is one hundred times easier if you are truly engaged and interested in what your learning, and if your teacher cant get you excited about it then you must take in the knowledge in a way that works for you, like relating it to your own life, or remixing it so you have a better understanding for it.
3. I think confidence alone can inspire someone, so if you are confident in what you do and know others will aspire to be that comfortable with applying their knowledge to their actions as well. When a group collaborates in class it will improve the content of the material because you gain other views and ideas on the topic. Everybody has a different thought process and if you take the one, or few, strongest, best views of each person you will have an unbelievable network to work with.