As stated in the Johnson (1994) article, there are five major elements of cooperative learning:
- Clearly perceived positive interdependence
- Considerable promotive (face-to-face) interaction
- Clearly perceived individual accountability and personal responsibility to achieve the group's goals
- Frequent use of the relevant interpersonal and small-group skills
- Frequent and regular group processing of current functioning to improve the group's future effectiveness
This reading in particular dealt entirely with face-to-face groups. My question is, how does social computing or social technologies affect these elements? Are technologies a help? a hinderance? Both? Are there extra elements you would add when talking specifically about cooperative learning using technology? The Curtis and Lawson article focused mainly on text interaction, but what about technologies that are more advanced?
2. All of these papers talked about the benefits of collaboration, but in my experience, most students groan when they find out they have to do a group project. What causes this separation between research extolling the benefits of collaborative learning and the students that dislike groups? What is the role of the teacher to make groups more collaborative? What is the role of the students?
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