1. LESSON 13
COOPERATIVE LEARNING
with the computer
Sarah Mae P. de Castro
III - Bachelor in Agricultural
Technology – Agricultural
Technology Education
Bicol University
College of Agriculture and Forestry
Guinobatan,Albay
Sarah Mae P. de Castro
III – Bachelor in Agricultural Technology major
in Agricultural Technology Education

2. Cooperative or collaborative
learning is learning by small
groups of students who work
together in a common learning
task.

3. Five Elements:
A common goal
Interdependence
Interaction
Individual accountability
Social Skills

4. Therefore not every group work
is cooperative learning since
students working on their work
sheets physically sat around a
table may be working together
without these features of
cooperative learning.

5. It is manifested that cooperative
learning in its true sense is
advantageous since it:
1.Encourages active learning, while
motivating students;
2.Increases academic performance;
3.Promotes literacy and language
skills; and
4.Improves teacher effectiveness.

6. In addition, there are studies
which show that cooperative
learning enhances personal and
social development among
students of all ages, while
enhancing self-esteem and
improving social relations between
racially and culturally different
students.

7. COOPERATIVE LEARNING AND THE COMPUTER

8. Researchers have made studies on the learning
interaction between the student and the
computer. The studies have great value since it
has been a long standing fear that the computer
may foster student learning in isolation that
hinders the development of the student's social
skill.

9. Now this mythical fear has been contradicted by the studies
which show that when students work with computers in groups,
they cluster and interact with each other for advice and mutual
help. And given the option to work individually or in a group, the
students generally wish to work together in a computer-based and
non-computer-based activities.

10. Reflecting on this phenomenon, psychologists think the computer
fosters this positive social behavior due to the fact that it has a
display monitor---just like a television set---that is looked upon as
something comunal.

11. Therefore researchers
agree that the computer
is a fairly natural
learning vehicle for
cooperative (at times
called prommotive)
learning.

12. COMPONENTS OF
COOPERATIVE
LEARNING

13. Educators are still vary about the
computer’s role in cooperative
learning. Thus they pose the
position that the use of
computers do not automatically
result in cooperative learning.

14. In that case, therefore, assign the
teacher several tasks in order to
ensure collaborative learning. These
are:
• Assigning students to mixed-ability
teams;
• Establishing positive
interdependence;
• Teaching cooperative social skills;
• Insuring individual accountability,
and
• Helping groups process information.

15. These are in addition to assigning a common
work goal in which each member of the group
will realize that their groups success. It is also
important for the teacher to limit learning group
clusters ( Six is the ideal number in a group ) so
that there can be closer involvement in thinking
and learning.