About cooperative learning projects. Amaya Retuerta Mingo

My name is Amaya Retuerta Mingo. During the last weeks all of the gropus of our class have presented their projects about cooperative learning and now I'm going to speak about all of them.

MUSICAL CHAIRS

This was the first group to present the cooperative learning project. They explained correctly and fluently the theory and all the ideas were right. Their presentation was good and I liked a lot their idea of doing a poster instead of doing a PowerPoint presentation or something similar. It was also clear, and all the ideas that were on it.

They explained the cooperative learning on a clear way like if it was for people who didn't know anything about theme.

To finish their project they do an interesting and enjoyable activity, which consisted on some boxes with different information about different countries. We have to decorate the boxes and look for more information and later we had to explain it to the rest of the class.

AMIGOS DEL FOOTBALL

They used a PowerPoint presentation to present their project, defining what is the cooperative learning and how it can be used.

They also talked about the advantages and difficulties (instead of disadvantages) of the cooperative work and how important is to reward all the pupils and motivate them to improve.

Their activity consisted on a diana, in which all the members of each group had to write information about us, like our favourite color, film and kind of music and our hobbies. The purpose of it was to know everybody of the group. Later one person of each group had to tell the rest of the class the information what he/she had learnt about his/her partners.

TEAM PERK

The project of this group was very creative for me. They did a very good presentation, explaining clearly the concepts and fluently.

I liked their idea of taking some pictures of a real class of an school, to show some characteristics of the cooperative learning. The information they gave about this theme was interesting. I also liked that their personal commitments weren't as similar as the other gropus. Some of them wanted to improve their creativity and I think that it is an important feature of a teacher.

Their activity was really funny. All the members of the groups had to say rules of the work in group at the same time we were passing a tennis ball. The people who had the ball in his/her hands when the time was over were the people wo had to write on the blackboard what the members of their groups had said. Later all together decided if the rules were good to work in a group, in class or both. The activity was funny and interesting at the same time that we reviewed the rules we have learnt during our life. We also learnt new things.

UNKNOWNS

This is one of the group that I liked most. Their presentation was really interesting and clear and it was also different than the other's ones. It was an interesting Prezi.

They have introduced interesting ideas like the rules for a good work, like help the others, write the goals... They have used quotes from other authors, like one that I liked a lot which sais: "None of us is as good as all of us togeher", Ray Kroc. The meaning of this sentence is real because all of us can work good individually but if we work with a group, the work will be much more good. Another idea that it was important for me was the group reflection, in which we have to say what has gone good and bad, what things we have to change and improve, etc. Their personal commitments were interesting, because most of them were that they have to listen to the others and their ideas and it's good for them to recognize and change it.

The activity they did was funny. We have to pass a ball to other classmate and at the same time we had to say something about us, our hobbies, likes and dislikes... It was good to know the others.

DUMBLEDORE TEACHERS ARMY

The presentation of this project was good and different. They did a PowerPoint presentation, which was based on the newspaper of the film "Harry Potter" and it was so nice. It also had some gifs that caught my attention immediately.

The concepts they explained were interesting and useful but the problem was that sometimes they didn't explained clearly. However, I liked the new concepts they explained, such as the conditions that satisfy some criteria like face-to-face interaction for at least part of the work, appropriate use of interpersonal skills, positive interdependence and individual accountability.

Their acctivity gave us the opportunity to know better other classmates. We had to answer some questions about us and later some of us had to explained it to the rest of the class.

MODERN STUDENTS

They explained very well the concept of cooperative learning. They also introduced new concepts like trust-building, leadership, decision-making, communication and conflict management. For me, the most important are communication, decision-making and conflict management. Communication is an essential thing inside a group, to put in common ideas, opinions, proposals, etc. With it, we go into the making- decision. But we need to know how to manage a conflict inside a group. We must respect everbody in a group and we can reach a conclusion with democracy and respect.

I like the example they gave of a team diary basing the idea on the serie they are refearing to, "Modern Family". It was a funny way to explain that concept. I liked a lot.

The activity they did was really enjoyable. We learnt that we can cooperate in groups even if we can't speak, we have to find different ways to reach our goals. In this case, we had to communicate with the rest without speaking to find the people wo had the same stickers than us.

WANDERLUST

The project of this group was really different and funny. It was the group I liked most. They presented with some videos that they recorded. They had to work hard to do all these things.

The concepts and ideas that they explained were good and they explained it clearly and fluently.

The purpose of their activity was the thing that caught my attention more. They organized us in groups and we had to write individually what we had learnt about cooperative learning and what we liked most. Later, we had to put in common the ideas in our group and write down the general ideas. What they were trying to show us is that we can be really good working individually, but we are better working in a cooperative way.