Thinkdrive – Cooperative Learning Tools

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Available FREE to schools

Thinkdrive – Cooperative Learning Tools

Practical strategies and Thinkdrive tools designed to promote active participation, purposeful discussion and effective student collaboration.

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Overview

The research supporting the impact of cooperative learning is compelling. When implemented effectively, cooperative learning can improve student achievement compared with individual learning (Hattie, 2018), while also fostering positive interpersonal relationships, social support and self-esteem (Johnson & Johnson, 2010).

This practical workshop will show teachers how to use Thinkdrive's AI tools to quickly generate engaging cooperative learning activities, particularly for the beginning of a lesson when capturing student interest and activating prior knowledge are so important.

Teachers will also explore Thinkdrive's extensive collection of ready-to-use cooperative learning strategies and resources, designed to encourage active participation, purposeful discussion and collaboration. Participants will leave the workshop with practical activities they can use immediately in their classrooms.

Generate cooperative learning starting activities
Encourage active participation and collaboration
Access ready-to-use cooperative learning strategies
Create activities teachers can use immediately

Example Schedule

3:25–3:30
Assemble & Introductions
3:30–4:30
Cooperative Learning – the power of peers
  • Differentiating cooperative learning from group work (PIME):
    • Positive Interdependence
    • Individual accountability
    • Monitor the groups
    • Equal Participation
  • Generating cooperative learning starting activities:
    • True / False and Myth / Fact statements
    • Topic Bingo
    • A or B + 3
  • Overview of other cooperative learning tools, such as:
    • Silent Card Shuffle – matching, sequencing, classifying and positioning
    • Argue and Judge Jury – for debatable topics
    • Round Robin and Hot Potato – for brainstorming activities
    • 1:4:Publish:Circle:Refine – for writing and creative / design tasks
Cost

FREE to schools

Delivery

Online or Face-to-face

Presenter

Gerard Alford

Director, itc publications
gerard@itcpublications.com.au

Supporting Research

High Impact Teaching Strategies – Excellence in Teaching and Learning, 2020

  • Scaffolding – planned sequencing, specific steps / activities – effect size 0.53
  • Direct Instruction – explicit teaching practices, modelling – effect size 0.59
  • Feedback – student performance, learning goals, redirects teacher / student efforts – effect size 0.69

Note: An effect size of 1.0 would improve the rate of learning by 50% and would mean that, on average, students receiving that treatment would exceed 84% of students not receiving that treatment.

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