Three of the following are potential disadvantages of cooperative learning. Which one has not been identified as a disadvantage?
a. Students do not always have the necessary skills to teach one another effectively.
b. Students may learn incorrect information from other group members.
c. Students from ethnic minority groups rarely benefit from cooperative learning activities.
d. Students may be more interested in completing the task quickly than in helping one another learn.
Question 2
Which one of the following best reflects technology-based collaborative learning as the textbook describes it?
a. Students share their work on a classroom data base, give one another feedback, and build on one another's ideas.
b. Working in small cooperative groups, students use word-processing software to create a class newsletter, short story, or other significant piece of writing.
c. Students use Facebook to locate age-mates across the nation who might like to explore a topic of mutual interest.
d. Students learn a simple computer programming language and then, working in pairs, create computer games that can help them acquire automaticity for basic math facts.
Cone of Learning (adapted from Dale).
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