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basically dialogue is a conversation in which all parties concerned work towards a common goal this differs from conversation based in advocacy where all participants attempt to convince the other parties of differing points of view.

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learning goals understand the difference between debate and dialogue this includes being able to determine their respective applications prepare appropriately for the seminars this includes annotations preliminary consideration and the creation of questions practice seminar protocol willingly and appropriately demonstrate the ability to question relate and expand upon any given texts.

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how we ve met those used the seminar preparation poster to format and guide our seminar pre-work think critically about the text before the seminar formulate questions to consider in the seminar implement rubrics for grading as incentives for participation use the dialogue techniques to build upon ideas.

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idea of learning from others dialogue is a great environment in which to learn from others as we know it is based on the exchange of ideas with the goal of finding a collective solution thus all parties come at the discussion with a open-minded view of all ideas presented and can accept them.

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seminar process the most important part of preparing for a seminar is pre-write there are 4 easy steps for preparing for a seminar these steps are number the lines number the lines of the text for reference in the seminar read like a love letter this means that you need to read the text in depth no skimming read over at least twice reading it like a love letter is important because when you do you find it more interesting and pay more attention this way you look for meaning in every word.

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· talk to the text o this is when you and the text have a conversation o these can be about anything so write a lot · seminar text writing o this is where the reader applies the conversation they had with the text and puts it into a cohesive analysis of the main ideas of the text o the reader comes up with seminar topics and/or questions o overall this is so that each person comes into the seminar with a concept of what they want to talk about.

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what we ve learned we learned what dialogue is and how people talk in dialogue we practiced dialogue by doing seminars in class about certain texts we learned new ideas from seminars we questioned where these ideas come from we learned and experienced new points of view.

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what we learned from the texts from the physics we learned that anything that is natural or man-made humans try to understand it another way of putting this is that when we see something that makes us wonder we want to know what causes it to be what it is for example what makes a stone statue is what goal the artist had when creating it from the leviathan we learned that men stay in check because of an outside power without this outside power chaos would erupt and there would be no safety or security except one s own strength and trickery.

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from mathematical principles we learned about the laws of motion created by sir isaac newton law a describes that anything that moves with constant speed in a line stays that way it changes speed or direction because it is forced to do so by something else we applied this to metaphysical situations from a mathematician s defense they talk about how a mathematician is a maker of patterns just like a poet or painter the difference is that a mathematician s ideas last longer then a painting or a poem it s because a mathematician s patterns are made by ideas.

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personal anecdotes i experienced a perspective shift when i participated in the mathematical principles laws of motion seminar my initial thoughts had been on what drives man to discover the principles discussed and science in general the seminar however was mainly directed at applying the laws to metaphysical relationships whether i agree with the validity or appropriateness of that comparison aside it was definitely an intriguing experience when so many participants approached the same text differently than i -thomas kovacs

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i remember one seminar when i had the most participation that i ve had in previous seminars i hadn t participated that much this specific seminar i really liked the topic so i was trying to talk as much as i could after that seminar i felt much better about myself knowing i had contributed to the conversation that s the day i realized that people should contribute they feels better when they do -vidal griffin ii

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