COLLABORATIVE LEARNING

In my previous post "prototype-your-open-clil-educational", I showed you a tool to make a draft of my open CLIL Lesson. This work is very related to the previous one since I am going to propose a methodology to carry out this project.
Cooperative and collaborative learning is based on teamwork, in which the teacher will be a mere guide to learning. I am going to show you more information about this methodology through a new tool that I have learned to use to make diagrams and to be able to show the information more easily, called Cacoo, that you can use it to synthesize the information that you want to give your students in a fun way.
You can find more information on the following website where I have extracted the information of this methodology (information).

This diagram was created by Beatriz Arance through Cacoo

As I have already said, in my previous project, the students had to build a weather station. To be able to implement this methodology, the class will be divided into groups of 4, in which each member of the team has a role. In this way children are responsible for their own learning. Each group will have to carry out a part of the project and everyone should ensure that they do well, since the project at the end will become common and all parts must be well made to make it works. Working cooperatively children will help each other, see their own failures and they can correct this errors with their peers´help. On the other hand being a collaborative project, children can talk among themselves, move through space, consequently they will be more entertained and they will learn through critical and reasoned learning, which over time they will remember that learning more easily.

Once the project is completed, students should contact other schools in which the same project has been carried out. In this way they will be able to compare the meteorological results of other cities or even of other countries. This contact can do it via email or create a blogg in which they can write the results obtained day by day. This way we are working collaborative learning outside the classroom.

And to finish the students, after a period of time, they will explain in class the results obtained and evaluate their own learning process. We could use the help of an external agent who will explain to the students the reason why the differences between the results of projects among other schools.

In this way we managed to turn our project into a collaborative project. Then I leave you a summary of the steps that you have to take into acount, through a tool that I used in my blog before, called Canvas.

Created by Beatriz Arance through Canvas

Photos from Emaze and Thinglink

Through this project I have learned that through cooperative and collaborative work, children's learning is deeper and dynamic, and it provides more values to children, such as respect, teamwork or fellowship.