On Wednesday, our class had our Edcafe about WWII. My group consisted of Eliza, Anson and me. We lead two discussions back-to-back at the beginning of class. In the first session, all members of my group facilitated the conversation. It went well and many people participated. Eliza started off the conversation by talking about the layoutof the concntration camp and many of the supervisors and people in charge. Then I talked about different forms of torture that the Nazi's used on their victims. I talked about a range of torture methods from medical experiments to techniques used in the death/extermination camps. Then, Anson took over and specifically talked about Aushwitz.
During the second session, Eliza went to participate in another group while Anson and I stayed back to lead our Edcafe. This session went as well, and Anson and I tried to fill everyone in about Eliza's information/
Overall, Edcafes are a great way for group participation in a class room. It is important for us to be able to work in a group, and this type of project helps with this. One thing in particular that I enjoy about Edcafes is that we can really learn about whatever we want. We get to pick our path and investigate about something that we are interested in.
One suggestion that I would make for future Edcafes is that we should only have two groups per session instead of 3 groups all going at once. This will make the 2 groups bigger. I think it would be advantageous to do this because I think that more people would make the conversation better. There would be more people who have information to offer, and the group won't need to rely on one or two people to really dominate the conversation.
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