Small Group Research

Our research conference is a week from today (Thursday, November 3rd), in the Cafeteria, from 3-4:30 p.m.

In today's class we clarified our research topic and created small groups with specific research tasks to accomplish before we meet next Tuesday. The topic is cooperative learning at the elementary school level.

Group/Task 1: Web search for Bay Area elementary schools that claim to use cooperative learning models. Collect website addresses and capture relevant quotes from their websites. Expand or refine the search as needed.

• Xavier
• Yahaira
• Kimberly
• Jamie

Group/Task 2: Contact teacher staff at Marine Science Institute and 5th grade teacher Nicole Shelly to interview them about their explicit or informal use of cooperative learning in the program or classroom.

• Jose
• Kobe
• Kelly
• Joseph

Group/Task 3: Re-review the sources and summaries posted on this blog for relevancy to our new focus on elementary education, and determine if there are obvious gaps to fill. Look especially for hard data that supports cooperative learning methods.

• Monica
• Angelina
• Sabrina
• Sergio
• Moises

Group/Task 4: Find empirical data (experiments) about the cognitive science of cooperative behavior/learning in humans, specifically elementary school-age humans. A good place to start or to assign to a group member is the sources from the posted articles on this blog.

• Julie
• Onica
• Alissa
• Larissa

If you were absent today, you have been assigned to the following groups:

1. KIMBERLY (check in with Xavier)
2. JOSEPH (check in with Jose)
3. MONICA (check in with Angelina)
4. ALISSA (check in with Onica)