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Video of the Week: Making group work a win for your students

eSchool News

Having kids work together promotes cooperation, builds social-emotional skills, and gets them engaged in active learning. Group work, on the other hand, tends to come with challenges. Some students feel like they do all the work, others feel left out, motivation wanes, and assignments seem to get cobbled together.

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What YouTube and Hollywood Divas Can Teach You About Active Learning

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Guidebooks to structure group work. These active learning strategies can work in any course—for any major, in any discipline. Some of the most dynamic thinkers and doers in education today are pioneers in active learning. YouTube videos for extra credit. A tattoo writing exercise. Vocab riddles.

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Understanding cognitive development in students via Piaget’s Theory

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In elementary education, incorporating hands-on activities, promoting group work, and using visual aids are crucial for effective learning. Hands-on activities (i.e., Group work fosters collaborative learning through projects and discussions, thereby encouraging students to consider different viewpoints and ideas.

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How to Significantly Improve Student Engagement and Retained Learning in Higher Education

Faculty Focus

After 13 years of testing higher-order active learning modalities in the classroom, collecting data, building a database, and analyzing student learning results in bi-annual principles of marketing classes, my colleague and I saw two important results emerge.

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16 multimedia learning tools for the classroom

eSchool News

Multimedia learning tools play an important role in classrooms in a number of ways–including, but not limited to, boosting creativity, encouraging student engagement, and helping students learn to collaborate. Natural leaders may emerge during group work as part of a team presentation assignment.

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17 Tweaks That Make a Big Difference in Group Work

Cult of Pedagogy

It’s pretty well known in educational circles that cooperative learning is supported by research, but so many teachers still struggle with it, so when things don’t work well, they give it up. So when you assign partner work, do it with intention. to determine groups.

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How to Engage Students and Support Learning in Large Classes

Edsurge

Dear Bonni, You have shared often about active learning strategies and the impact they have on student learning. However, I am dubious that the approaches you describe work with large classes. Offering team-based, low-stakes assignments to get students explaining what they are learning to others in the class.

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