Final learning in cooperative learning.

I have already learnt something new about Teams-Game-Tournaments; it is not an individual competition, because is a cooperative way of learning so everybody has to improve in a common way. There is not just one prize, but different prizes to the different groups according to their behavior and their way of working, for example one prize for the most creative answers, another one if they conclude all together...

Using this method we are not acting in a competitive way, because we adapt the “game” in order to play it on a cooperative way.

Another input that has caught my attention is the methods of meeting of one of the groups, it is like a help from the rest of the class, and I think is a good idea to share those aspects which could be a help for the class. They have used “Skype” to meet between them and another program to make the exposition, which was so good, called “Prezi”.

I also think that evaluating with stars or other types of items, could be a good idea because at this way, there is not competitiveness among students, because items are qualitative, not quantitative, so its function is to improve individually (I mean, improving yourself to be the best of you), instead of competing to get a better mark than the partner.

That was an idea from the third group, and they also give us some examples of assessment tables, in which there was a detailed evaluation about all the members of the group, it work as a team and also their own work,with all the tasks, points...They were like the normal ones on a cooperative work, but also with different way of punctuation, like I have mentioned before, an in a more extensive method. By this way every member of the group can see step by step their improvements and developing through the classwork and also their aspects for their future improvement.