Lesson 13 COOPERATIVE LEARNING WITH THE COMPUTER

Lesson 13

            COOPERATIVE LEARNING WITH THE COMPUTER

Cooperative or collaborative learning is learning by a small groups of students who work together in a common learning task. It is often also called group learning but to be truly cooperative learning, and there are five elements needed these are: a common goal, interdependence, interaction, individual accountability, social skills.

            From several studies made on cooperative learning, it is manifested that cooperative learning in its true sense is advantageous since it: encourages active learning, while motivating students; increases academic performance; promotes literacy and language skills; and improves teacher effectiveness. In addition, there are studies which show that 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 is very important in classroom activity it will help the students to share their ideas and opinions about that certain topics. It will give courage also to those students who are very silent.

            Every students must show or share their ideas in the discussion during group activity and this approach cooperative learning it will help us students to become more motivated in the classroom.

            As a future teacher it is important that we must know different strategies in the classroom so that we can help our students to show their creativeness to solve different problems in the classroom, and by the help of several activity in the classroom it will help the students to become motivated.