Group work as a pedagogy has a host of benefits. From a cognitive perspective, the interaction with and evaluation of others’ ideas can help confirm
Category: emotional intelligence
Active listening, paraphrasing and academic integrity
Sometimes academic integrity misconduct is not maliciously employed, but stems from an inability to paraphrase. Concomitantly, students who are asked to participate as a group
Helping students see the value of group work
’People must see the point of thinking if they are to engage in it.’ Kuhn 1999 This is the 14th post in a series titled
6 ways to help learners recalibrate attention in a lecture
Students sitting in a lecture have enormous amounts of extraneous load to deal with. The sheer size of the room means that the distance between
Misdirected venom
Protest is an important feature of robust democracy. Historically, it has been an arm of society evoked to keep government and those in power accountable,
Convincing students to ‘actively’ learn
Clearly the cover image for this post is super cynical, but I know many teachers and academics would identify with the metaphor of the continual
LEARNING DESIGN by Paul G Moss 