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After attending a lecture delivered by Ms. Eliane Metni, I was sure that there is no way we can avoid this wave of technology especially in teaching. The internet and the World Wide Web changed the globe into a small village. Collaborative learning among diverse cultures engages students as well as tutors in an advanced learning and sharing atmosphere. This has alot of advantages because humans learn from different ideas, from sharing and getting to know diverse information. Proponents of collaborative learning claim that the active exchange of ideas within small groups not only increases interest among the participants but also promotes critical thinking. According to Johnson and Johnson (1986), there is persuasive evidence that cooperative teams achieve at higher levels of thought and retain information longer than students who work quietly as individuals. The shared learning gives students an opportunity to engage in discussion, take responsibility for their own learning, and thus become critical thinkers (Totten, Sills, Digby, & Russ, 1991).
I believe that collaborative learning might be very essential to our students if we really know how to implement it by following these steps:
Future research studies need to investigate the effect of different variables in the collaborative learning process. Group composition: Heterogeneous versus homogeneous, group selection and size, structure of collaborative learning, amount of teacher intervention in the group learning process, differences in preference for collaborative learning associated with gender and ethnicity, and differences in preference and possibly effectiveness due to different learning styles, all merit investigation. Also, a psycho- analysis of the group discussions will reveal useful information.
After attending a lecture delivered by Ms. Eliane Metni, I was sure that there is no way we can avoid this wave of technology especially in teaching. The internet and the World Wide Web changed the globe into a small village. Collaborative learning among diverse cultures engages students as well as tutors in an advanced learning and sharing atmosphere. This has alot of advantages because humans learn from different ideas, from sharing and getting to know diverse information. Proponents of collaborative learning claim that the active exchange of ideas within small groups not only increases interest among the participants but also promotes critical thinking. According to Johnson and Johnson (1986), there is persuasive evidence that cooperative teams achieve at higher levels of thought and retain information longer than students who work quietly as individuals. The shared learning gives students an opportunity to engage in discussion, take responsibility for their own learning, and thus become critical thinkers (Totten, Sills, Digby, & Russ, 1991).
I believe that collaborative learning might be very essential to our students if we really know how to implement it by following these steps:
- Give students a specific task to share their ideas and explain the goal.
- Give time to students to share these ideas and fill out a sheet that shows them.
- Assign a specific speech for every student to express what the group has decided upon.
Future research studies need to investigate the effect of different variables in the collaborative learning process. Group composition: Heterogeneous versus homogeneous, group selection and size, structure of collaborative learning, amount of teacher intervention in the group learning process, differences in preference for collaborative learning associated with gender and ethnicity, and differences in preference and possibly effectiveness due to different learning styles, all merit investigation. Also, a psycho- analysis of the group discussions will reveal useful information.
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