Cooperative Learning
Cooperative
or collaborative learning is learning by small groups of students who work
together in a common learning task. It is often also called group learning but
to be truly cooperative learning, 5 elements are needed:
1. Common goal
2. Interdependence
3. Interaction
4. Individual Accountability
5. Social Skills
Cooperative Learning and the Computer
Researchers
have made studies on the learning interaction between the student and the computer.
The studies have great value since it has been a long standing fear that the
computer may foster student learning in isolation that hinders the development
of the student's social skills.
Now
this mythical fear has been contradicted by the studies which show that when
students work with computers in groups
Components of Cooperative Learning
Educations
are still wary about the computer's role in cooperative learning. Thus they
pose the position that the use of computers do not automatically result in cooperative
learning. There therefore assign the teachers several tasks in order to ensure
collaborative learning. These are:
1. Assigning students to mixed-ability teams
2. Establishing positive
interdependence
3. Teaching cooperative
social skills
4. Insuring individual
accountability, and
5. Helping groups process
information
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