Collaborative Learning
By lisa kendell on August 25, 2009
As an educationalist, I have often wondered what is more important? ‘what’ students should learn or ‘how’ they learn. Basics needs to be learned, there is no question about it. This is taught in the school and colleges. In addition, we need to teach the student the process of learning also. The Chinese proverb, “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” is very apt in explaining this. We need to help our students to develop an effective learning process and this will increase ‘what’ the students are learning.
I am currently looking to create an collaborative environment students and teachers. To motivate a student to learn, we have to get him to like to learn.To get his interest we have to implement innovative learning processes in his learning routine like using quizzes,flashcards ,videos and photos to make learning more of a fun activity,in this way the child will be interested in learning and will memorize details also easily.
I am using a site called http://www.funnelbrain.com, this site gives us a collaborative platform to create flash cards and videos. I found this approach very effective, my students are eager to get together and create flashcards. Take a look at flash cards on this site. The concept of student ‘funnel’ and concurrent changes to flashcards are innovative. I have used this and found it to be very useful with my students.
Collaborative Learning is the most useful learning method in which two or more people learn or attempt to learn something together.collaborative learning generally based on the model that knowledge can be created within a population. In this type of learning members actively interact eachother by sharing their experiences and take on their roles……