Cooperative learning
According to the article from Keramati, the cooperative learning is one of major learning methods which targets on students working for a same goal in a small group. This article mainly emphasized on how to enable educators to learn collaborative education in an immersive environment. Educators gain concrete personal feedback through practicing cooperative learning, which will strengthen their grasp of this learning method and give them the confidence to apply it to classroom practice.
From my personal idea, cooperative learning is suitable for high school and university students, because students of this age have a certain ability to cooperate and communicate, which is beneficial to the development of cooperative learning. In addition, the cooperative learning education model can enhance students’ confidence in sharing their own idea in class, because the students’ insights into knowledge have been recognized and supplemented by group members.
Furthermore，I think the discussion on Assignment 1 is a very intuitive reflection of cooperative learning. In last week’s discussion, we made it clear that the group assignment would focus on mental health issues and narrowed the scope of the discussion to students at the University of British Columbia. Narrowing the research avoided the bias in the survey results which caused by large sample size, Moreover, cooperative learning allowed us to quickly assign the content that each of us was responsible for, which greatly improved the clarity of the survey direction. In addition, group discussions greatly reduced the pressure of the survey on individuals.
Overall, cooperative learning improved learning efficiency.
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