e Activity

e Activity

Cooperative learning is an educational approach which aims to organize classroom activities into academic and social learning experiences. There is much more to Cooperative Learning than merely arranging students into groups, and it has been described as "structuring positive interdependence." Students must work in groups to complete tasks collectively toward academic goals.

Unlike individual learning, which can be competitive in nature, students learning cooperatively can capitalize on one another’s resources and skills (asking one another for information, evaluating one another’s ideas, monitoring one another’s work, etc.).

Furthermore, the teacher's role changes from giving information to facilitating students' learning .Everyone succeeds when the group succeeds. 

·        Level  and number of students

This activity has been thought for students about 9-10 years old in a classroom of 25 students more or less.

   

.        Topic.

In this activity we are going to identify and name different countries through a song “ All around the world”.

      Goals .

- Learn the names of some countries

-Learn and sing a song “All around the world”

-Create a dance for the song and make a video to show the students in other countries. Students from other countries  will have to learn and share in the  Twinspace.

-Evaluate the video

-Create cohesion in the group

 -Increase self-esteem and self-concept

·         Product

The final product will be the creation of dance that they will have to show us in a video using vimeo as a tool.

·         Herramientas TIC.

We are going to use the Twinspace to show the dance of the song using vimeo or you tube. First of all, we will teach the students how to create a video in you tube or vimeo.

·      Steps in the process.

It is important before starting to work a good cohesion of the group to resolve  problems easily. So, to start with, we will listen the song all together. Then, I will give them the song in a small piece of paper and they have to learn by heart. Meanwhile, they can complete a crossword to learn the countries. 

Then, I will form two teams and they will organize to prepare a dance in which all the students in the group have to participate. When the dance is finished. They will be recorded and they will have to load the video in the twinspace.Foreign partners will have to learn the dance and song and show the result by sending us a video

This is the song:

                         

·         Evaluation.

Children in other schools will decide following a rubric which video is the best. In addition to this, we will have the opportunity of evaluating ourselves and to the members of our team.

.      Ways of collaborating

We will use the platform Twinspace to share the videos and the crossword. Also, we will share the evaluation rubric and the results of the rubric.