Collaboration is very crucial in each classroom. It builds many skills that students can use later on in life when moving on to higher education and looking for jobs. When students collaborate with each other, they learn many social skills. As well, they learn to find answers and solutions on their own without the help of their teacher. It gets students to work together and accept and give out criticism.
According to the article, it is important to make sure students equally collaborate. I feel this is very important to ensure that each student is understanding the importance of collaborating with their peers, as well as actually doing it!
I liked the idea of teacher-selected and self-selected groups. Although many students would prefer self-selected, I feel teacher-selected would have a better outcome of learning collaboration. This way, students will not choose to be with the people they are most comfortable with. It gets them to interact with students they probably don't know to well to learn what it will be like to collaborate with new people such as at a new job or a new classroom.
I do agree with you I like teacher selected groups better than self selected groups because student are afraid of criticizing other peoples work and would rather pick someone they know or are close to therefore they will be friendly with what they have to say. Rather than actually telling people about their mistakes so they can learn from them.
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