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Description:
Description:
Cooperative learning is demonstrated when students work together to accomplish tasks, assignments, and projects. Cooperative learning promotes interactions, positive interdependence, individual/group accountability, group processing, and interpersonal social skills. When this strategy is well structured with rules in place, students should be able to come together in order to complete the desired outcome. In Cooperative Learning, group members usually work on individual/shared tasks or take on specific responsibilities in order to complete the objective and/or desired outcome.
Advantages:
Advantages:
Students are able to build collaborative and problem-solving skills. Many jobs have people work together, so it is beneficial for students to build these skills while in school.
Students work together to gain trust. Each member of a group has to trust that the other members will contribute and add to their project. Members in the group will work to ensure that everybody contributes and that appreciation is expressed for different contributions.
Disadvantages:
Disadvantages:
Some students may contribute more to the collaborative work than others. The uneven participation could lead to conflict.
Cooperative Learning needs preparation and management. It needs time to implement, as well as active and positive participation from students and teachers. If not consistent with the preparation and management of Cooperative Learning activities, it can be difficult to manage.
Anna Kate Blankenship's Technologies:
Anna Kate Blankenship's Technologies:
Students can work together to create a slideshow presentation. All of the students can work on it at the same time and collaborate to show their learning.
Canva is a tool for students to work together to make a design. They can show their learning on several different methods such as posters, flyers, slides, or graphics.
Padlet allows students to create a board to share information through notes, images, and videos. Students can work together to make a board and share it with their class.
Students work together to solve puzzles based on skills they are learning in class. The students are trying to solve the puzzle before time runs out, so they can unlock the lock and breakout.
Kahoot! has a team mode where students can be in teams and work together to try and beat other teams by answering questions the quickest and most correct.
Skylar's Technologies
Skylar's Technologies
Students work together in a group game mode. They work together to answer questions in order to earn energy or money for their group to play the selected game mode(s).
A presentation resource that can be used amongst students in order to collaborate with the teacher and their peers. When split into small groups, students are able to contribute to their group and the classroom as a whole by following along and answering questions when needed.
Students work together in order to create a video or video response to a project, task, or assignment. Students are able to share information with each other and the class by making a Flip video.
In a group, students work together to creat an e-book. It uses real time collaborations and can be used by student groups to create e-books, portfolios, comic books, photo books, journals, etc.
This is another presentation resource that can be used for students to collaborate through. Students will work together to answer questions, polls, videos, and games all within this presentation.
Resources:
Resources:
Collaborative learning approaches. Education Endowment Foundation. (2021, July). https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/education-evidence/teaching-learning-toolkit/collaborative- learning-approaches
Rigacci, A. (2020, September 1). What is cooperative learning? Five strategies for your classroom. Europass Teacher Academy. https://www.teacheracademy.eu/blog/cooperative-learning-strategies/
Johnson, D.W., Johnson, R.T. What is cooperative learning?. Cooperative Learning Institute. (n.d.). https://www.co-operation.org/what-is-cooperative-learning
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