Collaborative learning is one of the teaching approaches where students work in groups so as to understand a concept, create a product or solve a problem. Unlike individual learning, students engage with one another to ask for information, evaluate their ideas and monitor their work together. Collaborative learning is, therefore, an accurate term that caters for educational approaches encompassing joint scholarly effort between students, or students and teachers together. Despite working together, each is responsible for and accountable to each other. Collaborative learning can take the form of face to face communication or use computer platforms (chat-room or online forums). Collaborative teaching and learning create an environment where members aggressively cooperate by sharing experiences and take on different roles. The main tasks that students work on in collaborative learning are; collaborative writing, group projects, problem-solving, discussions, study groups, and other activities. You may be asking yourself, what are benefits of cooperative and collaborative learning? There are several advantages of collaborative learning. We can categorize them as to be of social, academic or psychological advantage.
Global Project - "Everyday Kindness"
Goals:
Students are given a good value for themselves. From there, they have specific actions in life to bring good things to others. They understand that bringing joy to others is also bringing joy to their own self.
Students are responsible for themselves, people around them, and the environment. The project aims to create value for students in terms of responsibility, attention and empathy.
The project also aims to achieve the fourth and the 16th goals in 17 UN development goals: Quality Education and Peace, justice and strong institutions
Process: 5 Weeks of a mission
Week 1: Building knowledge
Week 2, 3, 4: Kind action
Students watch videos of kindness (video suggestion). This is a video I recommend for you but you can completely choose another video that you think will fit your students.
Discussion together
What is kindness?
What actions are considered kind? (Some kind actions you can suggest to your students if they need your help, such as: caring for themselves, helping their parents, helping their friends, scavenging, etc.)
Students will perform kind works everywhere, such as at home, at school, in public, etc. These actions need to be recorded in photos, videos, kind stories, etc. Therefore, you should work with parents on a weekly basis by sending parents a weekly action sheet. This form will be sent to parents at the beginning of the week and will be sent back to the teacher on weekends. Parents can send for you photos, videos, their kids' story via email, message etc.
Click here to download the weekly action sheet.
At the end of each week, teachers will review and commend students for doing a lot of good work. I suggested that teachers print their pictures and paste the corner of the class as a way to advertise them.
Week 5: Skype-a-thon about Kindness
To help students share the kind work they have done as well as listen to their friends' stories from other classes, I encourage you to participate in the Skype-a-thon week for students to have chance to connect with other classes around the globe. I think that beautiful action should be widely shared. Skype-a-thon is also an opportunity for students to learn the culture of other countries around the globe. You can also have your student connect with another teacher to share if you do not find a class that shares the same time zone.
Bonus week: Kindness Day (optinal)
In Kindness Day, you call on all students, parents, staffs in your school to raise money, clothes, clothes, food, books, etc. to help children in difficult places. This is the way students learn the way to share difficult with others.
Certificate and Feedback
Check the effectiveness of the project: Sending this form to students to check the effectiveness of the project.
Certificates: Certificates as a token of appreciation and recognition to all the students and teachers who'd actively be a part of this global work.
Students are given a good value for themselves. From there, they have specific actions in life to bring good things to others. They understand that bringing joy to others is also bringing joy to their own self.
Students are responsible for themselves, people around them, and the environment. The project aims to create value for students in terms of responsibility, attention and empathy.
The project also aims to achieve the fourth and the 16th goals in 17 UN development goals: Quality Education and Peace, justice and strong institutions
Process: 5 Weeks of a mission
Week 1: Building knowledge
Week 2, 3, 4: Kind action
Students watch videos of kindness (video suggestion). This is a video I recommend for you but you can completely choose another video that you think will fit your students.
Discussion together
What is kindness?
What actions are considered kind? (Some kind actions you can suggest to your students if they need your help, such as: caring for themselves, helping their parents, helping their friends, scavenging, etc.)
Students will perform kind works everywhere, such as at home, at school, in public, etc. These actions need to be recorded in photos, videos, kind stories, etc. Therefore, you should work with parents on a weekly basis by sending parents a weekly action sheet. This form will be sent to parents at the beginning of the week and will be sent back to the teacher on weekends. Parents can send for you photos, videos, their kids' story via email, message etc.
Click here to download the weekly action sheet.
At the end of each week, teachers will review and commend students for doing a lot of good work. I suggested that teachers print their pictures and paste the corner of the class as a way to advertise them.
Week 5: Skype-a-thon about Kindness
To help students share the kind work they have done as well as listen to their friends' stories from other classes, I encourage you to participate in the Skype-a-thon week for students to have chance to connect with other classes around the globe. I think that beautiful action should be widely shared. Skype-a-thon is also an opportunity for students to learn the culture of other countries around the globe. You can also have your student connect with another teacher to share if you do not find a class that shares the same time zone.
Bonus week: Kindness Day (optinal)
In Kindness Day, you call on all students, parents, staffs in your school to raise money, clothes, clothes, food, books, etc. to help children in difficult places. This is the way students learn the way to share difficult with others.
Certificate and Feedback
Check the effectiveness of the project: Sending this form to students to check the effectiveness of the project.
Certificates: Certificates as a token of appreciation and recognition to all the students and teachers who'd actively be a part of this global work.
Working on Global Project
While working on Global Project "The Everyday Kindness" students created so many activity in school as well as at home. This projects make them kind towards people, animals and nature. The create sologan, poster, video on kindness, saving animal and protect our trees. They share their thought and activity on https://namngovas.wixsite.com/everydaykindness. These side created by - Nam Ngo Thanh (Project Leading). On these side many school share their collaboration work, photo, video and article etc. By collaboration learning they learned new way of Global activity.
Video of Students Activity
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For more activity please log on to - https://namngovas.wixsite.com/everydaykindness
Global Project - "The Innovation"
ScopeFormal education tends to be restricted to knowledge acquisition, memorization and assessment. There is very little interaction between students from different classrooms and we don't want our students to make mistakes. Education is more than offering knowledge. It is also about offering skills, opportunities and instilling empathy into our classrooms. Teachers keep pouring knowledge into our students' heads while there are other approaches like learning by doing, flipped learning and collaborative learning.
In the Climate Action project we break down our classroom walls and connect students over 60 countries. The project is student-centered and so the students have to do the research, brainstorming and discussion. They share their findings via weekly videos or presentations. The students are told that they are journalists and their classrooms become newsrooms. Teachers are initially driven outside their comfort zones as they are requested not to give away any knowlegde. They become discussion leaders and mentors pointing their students in the right direction and making sure the students verify their sources. All participating countries' students will learn in very different ways (collaborative, by expressing and creating, by doing research, by discussing, by connecting to experts on social media, etc) and will have very different outcomes (composing songs, dancing, creating, using Lego, Minecraft, stop motion videos, interviewing, etc). This project covers several subjects: Science, Math, History, Biology, Literature, etc. Students will learn to use certain tools without being instructed how to use them. Teachers will discover new approaches and tools. They will make global connection and... learning will be fun!
Take a look at our previous projects: Climate Action (250 schools), Human Differences (50 schools) and Wai Water (10 schools).
ValuesThis project is student-centered and a global collaboration between schools over 6 continents. We embrace the 21st Century Learning Skills and Sustainable Development Goals. The students also use technology in their classroom to find and structure content, present and share their findings.
In the Climate Action project we break down our classroom walls and connect students over 60 countries. The project is student-centered and so the students have to do the research, brainstorming and discussion. They share their findings via weekly videos or presentations. The students are told that they are journalists and their classrooms become newsrooms. Teachers are initially driven outside their comfort zones as they are requested not to give away any knowlegde. They become discussion leaders and mentors pointing their students in the right direction and making sure the students verify their sources. All participating countries' students will learn in very different ways (collaborative, by expressing and creating, by doing research, by discussing, by connecting to experts on social media, etc) and will have very different outcomes (composing songs, dancing, creating, using Lego, Minecraft, stop motion videos, interviewing, etc). This project covers several subjects: Science, Math, History, Biology, Literature, etc. Students will learn to use certain tools without being instructed how to use them. Teachers will discover new approaches and tools. They will make global connection and... learning will be fun!
Take a look at our previous projects: Climate Action (250 schools), Human Differences (50 schools) and Wai Water (10 schools).
ValuesThis project is student-centered and a global collaboration between schools over 6 continents. We embrace the 21st Century Learning Skills and Sustainable Development Goals. The students also use technology in their classroom to find and structure content, present and share their findings.
- Sustainable Development Goals: Gender Equality (SDG5), reduced inequalities (SDG10), peace justice and strong institutions (SDG16). More info
- 21st century Learning: Collaboration, Knowledge building, ICT for learning, Real world problem solving, Self-regulation. More info
- Student-centered & project-based learning: Students do research, brainstorm, bring structure to information, create, present and share.
- Technology Enhanced Learning: students learn how to use computer and tools by working on meaningful subjects.
- Cross-subject: History, Literature, English, Science, Maths...
- Collaborative learning: small groups, between countries (based on the constructivist and connectivist approach
- This project is not funded.