EDUC 30 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Deeper Understanding, Mediawiki, Smart People
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What is collaboration: difference between cooperative learning and collaborative learning. Cooperative learning: two individual students want to get knowledge/skills individually but they work together in order to do that. Typically doing it for purpose of own acquisition of knowledge. Collaborative learning: teacher puts together team of students who are working on a project and different students bring different things to the table. End of the day, they have one project that everyone has contributed to: collaboration goes beyond the classroom. Business world and all types of jobs because of the type of society we live in now. When students work in groups, they tend to process a lot more >can learn more: collaboration and cooperation trump individual and competitive learning. Finding the right tool for collaboration: collaboration: mutual engagement of participants in a coordinated effort to solve a problem together, can be seen through use of google docs and mediawiki for this.
