EDLD+5364+Week+4+Reflection

A favorite quote from the past week is from our textbook on technology: Cooperative learning is not so much learning to cooperate as it is cooperating to learn (Won & Wong, 1998)."

This quote, as read above, is from someone other than the book's author(s). I believe that cooperative learning is valuable on many levels. Students will be able to learn wonderful attributes throughout their teamwork planning and also form knowledge that connects to their past and their teammates known knowledge as well.

Working in a group is something we continually work at throughout our lives because of the varying elements that arise each time we come together to create learning with one another. Students learn about teamwork, but most importantly they learn about working together to learn something crucial to their futures! They ask, how can we work together for form new information for ourselves, our class, and our community?

Pitler, H., Hubbell, E., Kuhn, M., & Malenoski, K. (2007). //Using technology with classroom instruction that works//. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.