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15 Oct 07
Reuven WerberVicki Davis summary of Dr. Friend's lecture on coooperative learning philopsophy and technique.
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11 Oct 07
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Toefler, Third Wave 1990
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The Third Wave
Future Shock said the problem of the 21st century is that people will have two many choices -- "Overchoice" -- with so much overchoice they will start being stressed outthat we don't know what will happen to their learning modalities.
A teacher said "The internet stresses me out -- I type something in and get 1,493,000 choices."
And so, our job is to teach students how to make choices in dealing with this world so that they won't be stressed out. Our importance is to teach choices. Schools in the agrarian age -- what did they do in school -- every school in America read the same history book, same math book, and the same Bible. -
o the Industrial Revolution -- standardization was the key
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Families could move away -- nuclear families b/c people move away from their families. The break down of the family -- we can now live any where in the world.
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Then we started having top down bureaucracies (and we still do-- aurgh!) Assembly lines. routine tasks.
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To create students who could do rote routine tasks -- sit still, listen, memorize, and I'll tell you what to do -- read, write, speak,and listen. The problem with this today is that our world has shifted from industrial age to the information age in every industry except education.
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Break down of the family -- children now not living with any parents. 2 working parents -- we move around the world with computers now. We're seeing a whole new corporate structure of collaborative teamwork -- not top down -- eliminating middle management.
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"I've probably learned more in the last 3 years than in the last 30 -- it is mind boggling," says Dr.Sheperd.
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List of information of what the world was like in 1907. 100 years a go between agrarian age and moving into the industrial revolution.
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Rules in cooperative learning
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WE have to agree on the topics we choose. Don't do majority vote -- come to a consensus.
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everyone contributions to the final product
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he beauty of wikis and Google docs
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Grade A student who gets a zero on group work b/c they did everything -- they will begin to listen and to respect each other. We cannot have bulldozers in our classrooms and in group projects.
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http://del.icio.us/maryfriend/
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Cooperative Learning is a cornerstone of the flat classroom project. It is vital.
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