COOPERATIVE LEARNING WITH COMPUTER

What is Cooperative Learning?

Cooperative learning is a successful teaching strategy in which small teams, each with students of different levels of ability, use a variety of learning activities to improve their understanding of a subject. Each member of a team is responsible not only for learning what is taught but also for helping teammates learn, thus creating an atmosphere of achievement. Students work through the assignment until all group members successfully understand and complete it.

Cooperative efforts result in participants striving for mutual benefit so that all group members:

• gain from each other's efforts. (Your success benefits me and my success benefits you.)

• recognize that all group members share a common fate. (We all sink or swim together here.)

• know that one's performance is mutually caused by oneself and one's team members. (We can not do it without you.)

• feel proud and jointly celebrate when a group member is recognized for achievement. (We all congratulate you on your accomplishment!).

5 ELEMENTS NECESSARY IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE COOPERATIVE LEARNING Common goal The result or achievement toward which effort is directed; aim; end. in the study of the of computer we must see to it that we learn trough motivating ourselves in directing to where me mus achieve something. Not only in the computer learning mut but a\lso in any aspect of activities. Interdependence Dependence on each other or one another; mutual dependence. in cooperative learning, one must be with the others and together they will be learning both. Interaction A mutual or reciprocal action; interacting. In cooperative learning, you must have an interaction with your group. this enables you to understand more.there is a saying that goes, two heads are better than one. Individual accountability Individual accountability requires individual users to be held responsible for their actions after being notified of the rules of behavior in the use of the system and the penalties associated with the violation of those rules Social skills ADVANTAGES OF COOPERATIVE LEARNING 1. encourages active learning, while motivating students 2. increases academic performance 3. promotes literacy and language skills 4. improves teacher effectiveness

We can use computer in cooperative learning. we can surf the net so that the group could get information needed. We can learn better if we use we apply this cooperative learning.