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Title:
| Teaching Tips: Cooperative Learning for High School |
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Description:
| These sites are about using technology to enhance cooperative learning for secondary classrooms. Read articles that define and explain how to use cooperative learning, design projects, and make effective groups. Included are eThemes resources on using Wikis, online journals, and blogs. |
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Grade Level:
| 9, 10, 11, 12 |
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Resource Links:
| Develop a Telecollaboration
Here are templates to help you design and implement a collaborative project, assess your technological capabilities, and exchange information using the internet.
What is Cooperative Learning?
This site contains a collection of articles and information about cooperative learning and what students need to interact effectively.
Concept to Classroom
This online workshop explores the differences between cooperative and collaborative learning, what these lesson plans look like, and how to implement them. Includes Quicktime video segments.
Powerful Learning
This article is about inquiry-based teaching and the social benefits of cooperative learning. Design-based projects such as the FIRST robotics competitions and Thinkquest are discussed. Includes an interview with Linda Darling-Hammond.
Turbo-Charged Wikis: Technology Embraces Cooperative Learning
This article is about incorporating Wikis into the classroom.
Cooperative Learning: A Case Study
This Wiki article about planning, implementing, and assessing cooperative learning includes videos and Flash animations.
PBS: Cooperative Learning and Technology
This booklet contains tips for forming effective groups, approaches to making group members interdependent, and ways to incorporate technology into lessons. This is a 30-page PDF file.
Education Technology Integration in Classrooms
This site suggests activities for using Wikis and Weblogs as cooperative learning tools. NOTE: This site contains ads.
Education World: Assessing Classroom Technology Integration
What does seamless technology integration look like? This article asks what kinds of activities, lessons, and resources should an administrator or parent expect to see in a classroom in which technology is being appropriately integrated.
Technology Curriculum Integration Ideas
This page has a list of suggestions for incorporating technology into lessons.
Big Myth: The Computer and Cooperative Learning
This teachers' guide explains how to make the best use of cooperative learning interactions with The Big Myth social studies program.
Cooperative Learning Classroom Research
This article discusses the physical environment needed for cooperative learning to take place, such as classroom organization and furniture needs.
eThemes Resource: Teaching Tips: Cooperative Learning Strategies
Read articles that define and explain how to use cooperative learning strategies in the classroom. Includes cooperative learning lesson plans for a variety of subjects and grade levels.
eThemes Resource: Teaching Tips: Wikis in the Classroom
These sites focus on using Wikis in classroom. There are resources for teachers about Wikis, free websites to sign up for free Wiki spaces, Wiki tutorials, classroom ideas, and examples of actual Wikis in classrooms. There are links to eThemes Resources on Wikipedia in Student Research and Teaching Tips: Using Online Journals and Blogs.
eThemes Resource: Teaching Tips: Using Online Journals and Blogs
These websites are about using weblogs in the classroom. There are websites where teachers and students can sign up for their own blogs for free. There are also several articles that explain how teachers are using blogs in the classroom. There are also lesson plans. Teachers should be especially cautious about giving out these links as students can access other blogs.
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