Socratic Seminar Recap

After watching today's discussions, I was neither disappointed nor impressed.  It was our first socratic of the year so I didn't expect too much.  Both groups had strong moments where the discussion flowed smoothly and insights followed insights, but there was a lot more silence misdirection than there should have been.  I don't believe everybody spoke, but those who did speak didn't fully work on expanding the conversation.  It seemed that each topic went only one way and there was not a lot of connections made between topics.  I didn't hear much about what we've been learning in class.  I heard more of people's strong opinions and not a lot about stuff we learned from the past 3 documentaries we have watched.  I'd say that everybody needs to work on thinking evidence for every claim they make and instead of introducing claim after claim, people need to contribute to others ideas and expand on those before introducing a new idea.