In class last week we were provided with a video by Steven Johnson about collaborative learning and its' effects on us as students and future educators. The ideas that he presented were very interesting and it caused me to think about things in a different way than I had before now. I liked hearing that if you leave time and space for a good idea to form instead of forcing a mediocre idea you will come up with something that is worth thinking about. I have not personally experienced a long or drawn out "slow hunch" but for me the shorter and quicker "slow hunches" happen quite often for me. Leaving room in your ideas for the addition of more information or better ideas from other people will give you more time and opportunity for details to be developed. What I have learned from this video was to give special time to the ideas I am trying to come up with and leave room for other people's ideas to enhance mine to create something big.
The writing by Davis was almost as interesting and eye opening as the video. I learned about things that had never been presented to me before. I never knew that there were so many options for collaborative learning and it was nice to see the different potential things we could do for a group project. There were so many different options it was hard to choose a few to base or group project off of for class. I did learn that smaller groups were more efficient and beneficial for learning and accomplishing tasks. Rules make a group go 'round. I will utilize these learned skills for future classroom group projects or classes I'm going to take.
How, specifically, might you use what you've learned about group work to interact in future classes as a student and/or shape projects when you become the teacher?
ReplyDeleteI believe that I would utilize the different tactics depending on each class and who is in my classes. I would decide based off of those things because i feel like each situation would be different. I like the ideas of smaller groups, delegating tasks to people and then grading individually at the end of the project. These different tactics will help to improve group effort and not make it as much as a group project but instead a more individual project brought together.
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