Marina's+summaries

In the article "Shared Cognitions and Shared Theories Telling More Than We Can Know" written by Seng, Zacchilli, Cottle and Calvo the concept of group cognition (when most people in a group think alike about a task) is divided in two parts, the first one is called shared cognitions and the other is called shared theories. Shared cognitions are shared rationale for decision making, it's when a conscious cognitive functioning is shared by a set of group members.To explain this process, a group of researchers has decided to delineate the differences between shared and unshared ideas, they found out that when information is hidden, this may change the group decision. So, majority rule is dependent on shared cognitions and sometimes the majority perspective is more correct than the minority/individual one, even though in some cases the influence of the minority reflects on the group final decision. Also the researchers found out that groups can be better in some activities than individuals, but they equally make more grupal mistakes in the final results, this fact is affected by the work process because if a group goes through the whole process together they have a more likable result than the ones that are only joined together at the final presentation, this occurs because the ones that stay together for a longer time get to know the strengths and weaknesses of the other members of the group and work to put them together in order to have a better result. On the other hand, shared theories are shared norms, values, identities, the members' perceptual beliefs that may change others minds. This occurs in cultural groups where social interaction happens,share their beliefs come like a consequence of the interaction,and without the group realize that they are influencing other people with their way of thinking ,such as in a larger cultural groups such as a society. In sum, group cognition works more often than individual one,but they will always be dependent on each other the results can change related to the task that is asked, in some cases individuals will better and in other cases groups will.

Bárbara's suggestion: Marina, your summary it's actually pretty good. I just notice that you repeat the words a little. But in general you show that you read the text and most important, you understand the idea.

Good work, Marina! I agree with Bárbara that your summary demonstrates a good understanding of the text and the main ideas. To improve your summary, I would recommend working on making your sentences shorter. There are many instances when you put lots of ideas in one sentence and connected them with commas. This makes it very confusing for your reader. Work on separating your thoughts and writing with clarity. -Kimi __

In the article "What is Collaborative Learning?" written by Barbara Leigh Smith and Jean T. MacGregor, the authors talk about the varieties of group work and how this kind of learning is improving and growing everyday. Collaborative working is a more independent way of working for students because they use more the course material and have more discussions with their colleagues to learn. Is filled with a lot of assumptions about learners and the learning process, such as when learners learn new things, they use them to create something new. In this way of learning students have the responsibility to solve problems instead of only watching them be solved, they also have to learn how to work with the others' differences and points of view. These differences also help teachers to re-think their way of teaching because of the diversity of their students and the different background that each one has. The collaborative working works with class conversation that help students to develop learning based on their group colleagues' knowledge, this process creates closer connections between people and this bounds make the quality of the group work grow. In sum, collaborative work has more pros than cons It makes students grow by themselves and with the help of their peers, create a class that have students at the same level of learning.

Bruna's suggestion: Marina, I could see that you understand the article's idea but I'm not really sure about the article's name. I think it is "What is Collaborative Learning?". I suggest you to review your first sentence, I thought it is a little confused maybe a punctuation sign can solve the problem.I think the word " varietys" can be replaced by "varieties". I also suggest you to try to replaced the word "also" in the third paragraph because it appears so many times. I really think after doing these changes you text will be better than it already is. Best wishes.

Bruna I changed all you said,thanks for helping.

Marina.

Marina, as above the content of your summary is very good but your sentences tend to be long and confusing. Don't be afraid to write short sentences - try writing without commas and see if it helps. Good work! - Kimi