Lesson 13: Cooperative Learning with the Computer

Cooperative Learning is learning small groups of students who work together in a common learning task. 

There are 5 elements of Cooperative Learning:

1.     Common Goal

2.     Interdependence 

 

3.     Interaction

 

4.     Individual accountability

 

5.     Social skills

ADVANTAGES of cooperative learning for learners are: encourages active learning, while motivating students, increases academic performance, promotes literacy and language skills and improves effectiveness for teachers. 

But we can’t escape the fact that cooperative also have disadvantages for learners like; they are having conversation instead of doing the tasks, they are being impatient of those who doesn’t cooperate much, the leader is the one who do the task.