Cooperative Learning with the Computer

Cooperative Learning with the Computer

Prepared by: Capuno, Romeo Dumdum, Kasey Collin Arcilla, Marichu

What is Cooperative Learning?

What is Cooperative Learning?

• It's also called Collaborative Learning.

• It's learning by small groups of students who work together in a common learning task.

• Often called GROUP LEARNING.

5 ELEMENTS

4. A Common Goal

2. Interdependence 3. Interaction

1. Individual Accountability

5. Social Skills

Cooperative Learning in its true sense is advantageous since it:

• encourages active learning, while motivating students

• increases academic performance• promotes literacy and language skills• Improves teacher effectiveness.

In addition, Cooperative Learning enhances personal and social development among students of all ages, while enhancing self-esteem and improving social relations between racially and culturally different students.

Cooperative Learning and the Computer

Researchers have made studies on the learning interaction between the student and the computer 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 group they cluster and interact with each other for advice and mutual help.

And given the option to work individually or in a group, the students generally wish to work together in computer-based and non-computer-based activities.

Reflecting that computer fosters the positive social behavior due to the fact that it has a display monitor (just like a TV set) that is looked upon as something communal.

Therefore the computer is a fairly natural learning vehicle for cooperative (at times called promotive) learning.

Components of Cooperative Learning

Educators 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. Therefore, Teachers are assigned in several tasks in order to ensure collaborative learning.

Teachers' Tasks to ensure Collaborative learning are the following:

Assigning students to mixed-ability teams

Establishing positive interdependence

Teaching cooperative social skills

Insuring individual accountability

Helping groups process information.

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