When reading over Chisholm's article, I found myself agreeing with a lot of the reasons why I really dread group work or collaborative work. As I kept reading, I found ways that collaborative work can actually be beneficial and helpful for college students and as a future teacher.
My definition of collaboration would be working together as a group towards a common goal. A common goal could be a group project for school or even a floor set at work. What makes a project collaborative rather then co-authored is that each group member is responsible for his or her share of the work. A co-authored project would be one that one member does by themselves by putting different pieces together and the others just let them do all of the work and get the same good grade for it.
My past experiences with collaborative projects have been good and bad. Sometimes my group members were very helpful and full of plenty ideas and other times no one had anything to say or any ideas and they seemed like they didn't even want to do the project.
Potential benefits of collaborative work could be that the work is split equally among group members and more ideas can be shared.
Potential obstacles for collaborative work would be finding time for everyone to meet and agree on what to do or one person in the group not cooperating.
My definition of collaboration would be working together as a group towards a common goal. A common goal could be a group project for school or even a floor set at work. What makes a project collaborative rather then co-authored is that each group member is responsible for his or her share of the work. A co-authored project would be one that one member does by themselves by putting different pieces together and the others just let them do all of the work and get the same good grade for it.
My past experiences with collaborative projects have been good and bad. Sometimes my group members were very helpful and full of plenty ideas and other times no one had anything to say or any ideas and they seemed like they didn't even want to do the project.
Potential benefits of collaborative work could be that the work is split equally among group members and more ideas can be shared.
Potential obstacles for collaborative work would be finding time for everyone to meet and agree on what to do or one person in the group not cooperating.
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