About Cooperative Learning, Zuleika´s comments

Musical chairs

Taking into account that it was the first group to expose, the presentation and the activity was one of them that I liked.

His presentation was very enjoyable; they supported with a power point that explaining step by step what had to explain exactly to understand what cooperative learning is.

Perhaps some failures helped to better understand cooperative learning as what said Yolanda over the teacher, that we should not say that he is only a guide, but also has many other functions as do the class, find the materials you need and give you counts whether objectives have been met, I think the goals both individual and group have been met in the group : the organization of the group was good, all members of the group knew of that spoke was the theme, the presentation in English was very entertaining and fluent and they knew very well answer the questions.

In relation to the activity, it was a clear example of cooperative learning. The idea of creating new groups was interesting and fun, the activity was about geography of each country. In addition, must be taken into account that the members of the group were present at all times to guide us if we had any questions, and materials support facilitated the understanding of the activity was prepared.

¡Good presentation!

Amigos del football

Of this group, I have to highlight the fluidity to present in public, it was very organized and ones were supplemented to others in the presentation. Also it must be said that presentation, for me, was very full of information. It wasn't as visible as other groups, and this made his explanation was not clear.

In this presentation, we learned that cooperative learning has no disadvantages, but complications that arise in the group, highlighting the importance that has to know work well in this type of method. After the intervention of the teacher, they and we had clear this concept that helps us to better understand.

The activity was very funny: 

The people of the base team could have known that they had in common and new things could discover colleagues, doing it in a different way.

Team Perk

This team has made a good presentation and everyone knew what the topic was about. The thinks I liked more were the evaluation sheet that they put in the presentation and the photographs in a real class to explain the different types of distribution in a cooperative learning class.

They spoke about the rules that its one of the most important content in this work and also because there activity was related to this part of the presentation.

This activity was with a tennis balls. We have to through to the different members of the group and each of them have to say a rule to put in the class. Then, pass the 2 minutes, we have to use the memory to remember all the rules that our friends said and put everything in common.

It was an easy understood presentation and every member of the group have spook in a fluency way.

Unknowns

It was a different presentation from all the previous ones since, apart from use prezi and make more dynamic presentation, added new terms as regular reflection and short term gols that earlier groups didn’t said before.

The prezi on the other hand, was very well made; they only wrote about the important points, without adding unnecessary information and refers to the authors of those who spoke.

The new definitions mentioned before help us work better as team since we know that we must set goals and meet them with our working group, for a session or for the entire course. And for this, we must reflect on what is right or wrong and so, make decisions together.

Dumblendore teachers army

The presentation was one of the most original, doing mention to their group name. Although, perhaps by making it beautiful, was, for me, a little difficult to understand.

The contents were clear and although the professor asked many questions that they knew how to explain them. Perhaps what should be improved is the flowing to explain the information and order in his head the ideas they want to explain.

They added new interesting terms like "promoting positive interdependence" summarizing that students should be equal and "providing individual accountability" where individual work will be taken into account not only the work in group, each member has to perform individual tests to demonstrate that it can do only things.

The presentation itself, lasted a long time, and it seems to me that they might have invested more in the activity which was very entertaining. The fact of separating us for questions with another partner helps learn us more each other, promoting listening and memory by having to explain what your mate told you.

Modern students

The presentation of this group was differently from the others, attempted to explain in a poster. The ideas were very clear and the members of the group helped themselves among them. Perhaps missed some more attentive when presenting their work but rest, everything went very well. This group added new information about trust in the other members of your team, the leadership that each member must have and as it should be rotating, and those definitions are very important for understanding how should we work to make it work.

They also had the great idea of giving tips to teachers to take a group and this was one of the most important points of this group.

The most I liked, with respect to other groups, was the activity. This activity was a clear example of how it should work in group, making us understand that you between the help of everyone, we can reach our goal and is not always bad to rely on others.

Wanderlust

The best presentation, for me, worthy of a 10. The way to explain the cooperative learning was very original, relying on videos with drawings and representations of the same members of group. In addition, it shows the effort and dedication of the work, trying to find the best way to explain what working group and the different techniques that exist for this purpose.

At the beginning of the explanation, we also divided into sporadic groups that we did the activity of the end.

Perhaps the activity may have been more dynamic but I think that it also greatly influenced the little time we had. This activity was as a closure to all others, where we put the conclusion of what had most liked and thought more important in this type of learning both individually and group.