1) Students actively participate in the class and work together to scaffold and build information on the subject topic. When I consider courses on interactive multimedia (computer technology), this approach could be used in a project where students work together to design a multimedia project.
2) Pros: Students scaffold on prior knowledge gained on a topic, teacher and students work together to create a productive learning environment, students learn teamwork and collaboration in learning approaches.
Cons: If not provided an appropriate level of guidance by the instructor the learning has the potential to be less productive for the student, random assignment of grouping can create problems within the group learning and production process.
1. A community of learners in my opinion is group of students who work together to solve problems on their homework, that work together to learn from one another, and a group of members who are equally responsive and helpful to those in their group. I personally feel that the main purpose of a community of learners is so that everyone can learn from everyone, therefore to incorporate this into my classroom, I would group students together based on how well I see them working together. I want to make sure that all groups are cooperative as possible, and that everyone feels comfortable and capable to learn within their "community." The hardest part with 2nd graders working together in a community of learners, is that not everyone has a chance to talk, because one child generally dominates. Therefore, in my second grade classroom I would view the class as a whole as the "community of learners", because they are at the age where everyone is capable to learn something from everyone in the classroom and small groups do not work as well, due to their always being some sort of disagreement.
2. Pros: the opportunities to learn are endless, if I chose to do groups the groups can be changed often, the children learn so much more because they are gaining more than one perspective (which is normally just the teachers), children learn social skills and learn how to work together
Cons: disagreement between children in small groups and the children might not want to speak up in smaller group due to feeling that their thought/opinion may be wrong
1) Students actively participate in the class and work together to scaffold and build information on the subject topic. When I consider courses on interactive multimedia (computer technology), this approach could be used in a project where students work together to design a multimedia project.
ReplyDelete2) Pros: Students scaffold on prior knowledge gained on a topic, teacher and students work together to create a productive learning environment, students learn teamwork and collaboration in learning approaches.
Cons: If not provided an appropriate level of guidance by the instructor the learning has the potential to be less productive for the student, random assignment of grouping can create problems within the group learning and production process.
Bloom's response on Carla's
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1. A community of learners in my opinion is group of students who work together to solve problems on their homework, that work together to learn from one another, and a group of members who are equally responsive and helpful to those in their group. I personally feel that the main purpose of a community of learners is so that everyone can learn from everyone, therefore to incorporate this into my classroom, I would group students together based on how well I see them working together. I want to make sure that all groups are cooperative as possible, and that everyone feels comfortable and capable to learn within their "community." The hardest part with 2nd graders working together in a community of learners, is that not everyone has a chance to talk, because one child generally dominates. Therefore, in my second grade classroom I would view the class as a whole as the "community of learners", because they are at the age where everyone is capable to learn something from everyone in the classroom and small groups do not work as well, due to their always being some sort of disagreement.
ReplyDelete2. Pros: the opportunities to learn are endless, if I chose to do groups the groups can be changed often, the children learn so much more because they are gaining more than one perspective (which is normally just the teachers), children learn social skills and learn how to work together
Cons: disagreement between children in small groups and the children might not want to speak up in smaller group due to feeling that their thought/opinion may be wrong