EXAM – 2203 Q.2 b)

The encouragement of collaboration amongst students

• Get them to choose the groups they are able to work with. Together they can chose the subject they want and work on to achieve a common goal.
• Allow them to work together and keep mentioning on their tasks together
• Overtime they should learn to trust each other.
• The teacher should encourage the collaborative culture. This is done through creating a group on facebook, adding each other to your del.icio.us web site, g-mail account and all these other programs.
• Because every one is scared about losing money because of ideas the teacher should mention that money factor is useless. A good example is  Tim Burners Lee – who created the World Wide Web and chose not to make money off it because he thought it’s unethical
• If they are still untrusting, the teacher should mention that the students have to copyright and source all their work – i.e: the task of find 3 articles and evaluate them. Students should copy each other’s links t save time … schemes of collaboration. Classroom activities such as these will be the best thing.
• A blog I wrote on 12 -10 -2007: I mentioned there were people I must thank because they helped me to do this page. This was mainly due to our lecturer who stated that collaborative learning will encourage us to learn. This is correct and now we ALL ask for help and learn faster.