Computer-supported collaborative learning

ratios. One instructional strategy I could use collaborative groups. My rationale for choosing this instructional strategy when students interact with each other to share knowledge and solve problems it builds collaboration skills and deeper understanding of materials. Students are placed in groups or pairs to fulfill a task or assignment given by the teacher. Collaborative groups create a motivation, critical thinking skills, and active learning as well as learn to work with others and manipulate

2016 It satisfies me to be able to write this letter to inform you the best practices occurring in my classroom. Recently, my students’ wrote an autobiography from his/her childhood and also researched a place he/she traveled to. This activity supported the cross-disciplinary examination of English and History. First, my students’ worked on several worksheets to help them brainstorm on events in his/her life that lead up to his/her autobiography. In order to help each other’s thoughts to develop

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the curriculum (Selwyn, 2012). Along with the obvious processes of teaching, learning and communication, the processes of socialisation and regulation should also be considered when thinking about schooling (Selwyn, 2012). A person who teachers or instructs, especially in a school environment is referred to as a teacher (Merriam Webster, n.d.). The priority of the teacher should be to seize the opportunity for learning experiences (Creighton & Dickson, 1969). Society has always had high expectations

that proves to lead towards student learning and higher achievement including strong leadership, clear and shared mission, vision, values, and goals, collective inquiry, action oriented, collaborative teams that work interdependently, a focus on student learning and results oriented. These ideas are represented within a Professional Learning Community (PLC). To become a PLC, a staff must make changes in their actions and work together focusing on student learning. PLC’s have evolved out of failed

that people’s mental structures are based on their interactions with OTHERS. Basically he says that other people create our thinking processes and cognitive structures as we interact with them, which begins particularly at a young age. Vygotsky supported sociocultural theory, “which states that the role of development in children happens through their community and interactions” (Woolfolk 59). This is referring to peoples ways of thinking and behaving in other words. Vygotsky notes three themes that

Community Profile Ravalli County is located on the 93 Highway corridor running north and south on the western border of Montana. Ravalli County was the seventh most populous county in 2006 and had a 43% population increase between 1990 and 1999. In 2012 the population was 40,617 representing a slight increase of 300 from 2010 (“Montana Department of Labor” and “Annie E. Casey Foundation”). Ravalli County public schools provide services to just under 6000 PreK-12 students residing in Darby

useful for an organization? Wiki is an editable, easy running program, that can be navigated by the least computer challenged individuals and contain massive amounts of information. Ward Cunningham stated, “The simplest online database that could possibly work.” Ward Cunningham is known as the father of Wiki. In 1995 he and Bo Leuf designed WikiWikiWeb, the first wiki, to be an open, collaborative community Website where anyone can contribute. This philosophy has proven true as there are many wiki’s

process has been in demand because it serves the needs of every student individually and independently. The process aids in creating a specific program for almost every student which takes into account the abilities, motivations, interests and the learning styles of every student independently. Although the advancement and progress in the field of technology has helped people develop such a system but it is still limited to specific educational institutions and regions of the world. In order to spread

contribute to academic success (Alfassi, 2004, p.1), and teachers who fail to model effective literacy strategies to their students, simply compound the problem. For educators attempting to meet the diverse range of learning needs, the ever increasing number of students with learning difficulties is overwhelming. The decisions regarding the types of interventions and the limited research on numerous strategies currently available are both misleading and confusing. However Walker, (2004) warn that