Marina's+essay


 * Collaborative Work**

Working in group is very difficult to develop,because of the students lack of time to meet after school,so to solve that problem the internet is a space where they can do their works together without leaving home.In that sense collaborative work is beeing developed trough the internet. But the old methods are not totally forgot,they still have to use group cognition,shared ideas and the group work itself.

Collaborative working is a more independent way of working for the students because they use more the course material and the discussion with the colleagues to learn, not excluding the role of the teacher and of the usual learning process.Filled with a lot of assumptions about learners and the learning process, when the learners not only learn new things, but they also use them to create something new.

In this way of learning students have the responsibility to solve the problems instead of only watch them be solved,they also have to learn how to work with the others differences and points of view,and this differences also help teachers to re-think their ways of teaching because of the diversity of their students and the different background that each one have.

A group cognition occurs when the majority in a group have the same tought about a subject,this type of cognition can only happen when the participants share they individual toughts.This kind of sharing have two types the shared cognitions ( shared rationale for decision making process) and the shared theories ( shared norms,values,indentities).This majority leads to some better decisions and results and some activities than a minority( individual),on the other hand they are lead to more mistaked group decisions.

The shared ideas in group decision making are very important because when a information is hidden,it changes the results of the group decision.Although individual cognition is a strong part of the process, in the sense that when someone is not included on the development of the ideas, a lack is created.

The collaborative working works with class conversation that help students to develop learning based on their group colleagues knowledge, this process create closer connections between people and this bounds make the quality of the group work grow. Work group only have success when the partners are together trough the whole process,and not only on the presentation day.Some of the pros that group work have are know the strenghts and weaknesses of the other in order to be able to help when he needs and to consciouslly share some of equal ideas.

In summary, the idea of getting together to share the ideas is very important,but when we can't meet each other,internet has many sites that can make this reunions without leaving home,such as wikispaces,facebook and others.Altough we will never be able to leave the old methods or the group work.The collaborative work have more pros than cons and make this students grow by themselves and with the help of their equals,creating a class that have students in the same level of learning.