LESSON 13 - COOPERATIVE LEARNING WITH COMPUTER

Cooperative learning can be applied in doing projects. I think the reason why it is not to be adopted in all classroom learning situations is that the group may not be all the time organized.  Some may not work efficiently and may take time for teachers to work them out.  What I have experienced, some groups also work fine depending whether or not the members like each other's company.  But whatever they do, they can always make it a challenge.  They can always do it  positively even if they don't like their  group mates. This way, they will do their best making this a clean competition. Yes debated  may work but in a decent manner. This way, the student can enhance his / her own skills. He/she  learns respect  and "PAKIKISAMA", good values that must be acquired. The teacher is the one that checks and  looks for strategies to ensure each member does his/her work. Maybe he/she can take time to interact with the group at times.