Chapter 7: Cooperative Learning
Cooperative learning is when students work together to have a better understanding of their learning.
Keypals looks to be an interesting site for students to reach out to other students in different states, or countries. This idea is a way for students to learn about others and socially interact with students about a give topic. This is a very social way for students to learn about cultures, languages, as well as different student perspective about an academic topic.
As I was reading about WebQuest, I was thinking of how I could use this in our school. My class only has 5-8 students so it gets hard to come up with a project they can work together on that will interest all of them. So if I was to set up a webquest with another classroom, students would be able to have the social connection and cooperative learning with out having to work with the same few kids all the time.
Another social activity I thought of adding to my classroom is having my class build a web site. This would be a place where students can have online discussions as well as show competed work. For those students that do have a computer at home they will be able to share their work with their parents. For those students that do not have a computer at home they can share their work with their parents during student led conferences.
There are so many new technology based ideas in this chapter and all of them are good examples of social learning.
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ReplyDeleteI have an Art Room website for my students in grades 1-4. I display photos of student artwork that I keep for the spring art show. The students are not able to take their artwork home until after the art show, so by displaying their artwork online, their parents can view their work and the students are excited to share their work with their family and others in the community and extended family. Relatives that live out of state can even see the child's artwork presented online. My students love this and I try to add about 5 examples from each project that my students complete. Keeping up with the picture taking, uploading, and labeling online is hard though, but I do my best because of the benefits my students and their families get from the website.
I love your idea about building a class web site. Students would really get into this. It would be a wonderful way for students to share their work with family members that live out of town. Students put so much more effort into something that will be shown off. What an excellent resource for this.
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