Kickstart Your Idea with Kickstarter
In Ideas, Trends on June 10, 2009 at 4:19 PM
Because I haven’t written in a long time in Officetimulation, I think a feature on a blog called Kickstarter is in order.
What is Kickstarter?
Kickstarter is a new way to fund ideas and endeavors.
We believe that…
- A good idea, communicated well, can spread fast and wide.
A large group of people can be a tremendous source of money and encouragement.
Learning About Cooperative Learning
In Ideas on March 26, 2009 at 11:47 AMAfter seeing this post by my friend (who I used to work with when I was still teaching English to Koreans) I thought taking the concept of this teaching tool and applying it to a small company like ours can and will yield a lot of results. But before we go into that let’s start with the basic first.
So what is Cooperative Learning?
Cooperative learning is the instructional use of small groups so that students work together to maximize their own and each other’s learning. Class members are organized into small groups after receiving instruction from the teacher. They then work through the assignment until all group members successfully understand and complete it. In cooperative learning situations there is a positive interdependence among students’ goal attainments; students perceive that they can reach their learning goals if and only if the other students in the learning group also reach their goals (Deutsch, 1962; Johnson & Johnson, 1989). No one group member will possess all of the information, skills, or resources necessary for the highest possible quality presentation. Many studies have shown that when correctly implemented, cooperative learning improves information acquisition and retention, higher-level thinking skills, interpersonal and communication skills, and self-confidence (Johnson, Johnson, and Smith, 1998).
