{"id":26246,"date":"2012-01-12T10:49:45","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T15:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=26246"},"modified":"2012-01-12T10:53:59","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T15:53:59","slug":"one-of-the-7-concepts-for-effective-teaching-collaboration-beats-competition-fraknoi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2012\/01\/12\/one-of-the-7-concepts-for-effective-teaching-collaboration-beats-competition-fraknoi\/","title":{"rendered":"One of the 7 Concepts for Effective Teaching: \u201cCollaboration Beats Competition&#8221; [Fraknoi]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Excerpt from<\/em><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/aer.aas.org\/resource\/1\/aerscz\/v10\/i1\/p010401_s1?view=fulltext\" target=\"_blank\">Seven Concepts for Effective Teaching<\/a><\/strong> &#8212; from Astronomy Education Review by Andrew Fraknoi<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">CONCEPT 2: \u201cCOLLABORATION BEATS COMPETITION\u201d<br \/>\nThere is no need to make an introductory astronomy unit or program like the Survivor show on TV. In any learning environment, it can be better to encourage students to work together and to support each other. After all, most jobs and even intellectual enterprises today require participants to do effective teamwork. When you approach a class period like an Olympic trial, those who don\u2019t \u201cscore high\u201d get discouraged pretty quickly. However, if everyone\u2019s input is solicited and valued, everyone feels part of the team and more open to learning. This is why good teachers find ways to draw in a much wider group of students than those who happen to raise their hands first.<\/p>\n<p><em>Also:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Concept 1: \u201cLearning is not a spectator sport\u201d<br \/>\nConcept 2: \u201cCollaboration beats competition\u201d<br \/>\nConcept 3. \u201cEverything takes longer than you think\u201d<br \/>\nConcept 4: \u201cLess is more!\u201d<br \/>\nConcept 5: \u201cNew knowledge must connect with prior conceptions\u201d<br \/>\nConcept 6: \u201cGive and get immediate feedback\u201d<br \/>\nConcept 7: \u201cDon\u2019t give walnuts to beggars who have no teeth!\u201d [old Portugese proverb]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt from Seven Concepts for Effective Teaching &#8212; from Astronomy Education Review by Andrew Fraknoi CONCEPT 2: \u201cCOLLABORATION BEATS COMPETITION\u201d There is no need to make an introductory astronomy unit or program like the Survivor show on TV. In any learning environment, it can be better to encourage students to work together and to support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,50],"tags":[315,633,594,426],"class_list":["post-26246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collaboration","category-teaching-learning","tag-astronomy","tag-collaboration","tag-teaching-learning","tag-the-good-and-bad-sides-of-competition-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26246"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26252,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26246\/revisions\/26252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}