This article and the problems that it brings up reminds me
of the Ted talk by the woman who wrote the book quiet. It was about the power
of the introvert and she mentions how classrooms are moving away from anything hat
requires deep individual though. She says that everything today is done in
groups to encourage collaboration and teamwork. Although she doesn’t necessarily
see this as all bad she mentions that those who are introverts are being
constantly overwhelmed with other peoples chatter and would benefit from more time
to think about the problem individually before it is brought to a group. Creative
ideas do not always come from a group and individuals should also be encouraged
to think, not just the group.
I thought that this related to this article because this article
brings up a lot of stumbling blocks associated with group work. They’re not necessarily
the concerns that she has but nonetheless involve rethinking group work and
formatting it differently. These author mentions that conversation is essential
to knowledge but he takes a very broad stance on what conversation entails. I like
the fact that he brings digital resources in that allow a certain amount of
individual thinking and eliminate some of the group work problems such as
clashing personalities.
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