How can teachers use Collaborative Learning?
Collaborative Learning happens when students work together or are made to work together in pairs or groups: • to understand or “make” meaning of” a concept or text • to create a solution for a problem (given in class or self-discovered) • to explore a topic, a question, an area of knowledge • to apply the principles learned in their curriculum • to conceive of new ways to apply the knowledge they have learned in class • to construct a tangible article or a physical object (for example, a report, a term-paper, a model volcano, a recycled-paper bag, a solar panel, an electric vehicle) out of the course-learning The above, of course, is an indicative and not a comprehensive list of the ways in which collaborative learning may be used by teachers.
