Sunday, February 17, 2008
Peers as resources
Wow, what a great resource the students of Skip Via's Education 429 class have turned out to be. Each student has their own blog and each blog has interesting, educational sites that really supplement my educational tool box. The purpose of this class is to learn new technologies and apply them into our lesson plans. Although this work is stimulating, it could be a bit overwhelming due to the vast number of resources available. The act of sorting out the great from the mediocre has been significantly shortened when the class works as a team, with each reviewing sites that are worthy and passing them on via the blogs. This week we begin building Power Point tutorials that should cover relevant educational software. I hope I can contribute as well as my peers.
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Your post brings up some interesting points about group work. The situation you described in your post is (to me) the ideal of group assignments--individuals acting as resources for each other while still pursuing their own particular project. I'm not a fan of what usually passes as "group work" in most public school settings--several students working on the same project and getting a single grade for it. The goal of such projects is ostensibly to give everyone greater exposure to the topic at hand, but in reality group projects are usually driven by one or two motivated group members while the rest do as little as possible to get by. I'm convinced that most teachers assign group projects so that they will have fewer projects to grade.
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