Blog #2–Learning Design – Cooperative learning

When it comes to cooperative learning, I believe there are many proven solutions in today’s learning environment. Cooperative learning can break the teacher’s monopoly on the sources of classroom information and allow students’ creativity and initiative to flourish. But but I believe that even though cooperative learning has many benefits, it also has a number of gaps.So, when designing our learning programs, we need to minimize the risk of these loopholes appearing and fully utilize the advantages of the cooperative learning mode. How to maximize the value of students in a cooperative learning environment is a question that requires careful consideration. Assigning tasks to each group member in advance would be a good solution.

I think group work would have a positive effect on our topic: educating colour-blind students and housewives about financial investments, etc.
Firstly, diverse perspectives: When learning in small groups, housewives can learn from the different perspectives of their classmates. This can broaden their understanding of financial concepts and provide insight into new investment possibilities.
Secondly, cooperative learning can provide encouragement to homemakers. As they interact and collaborate with their classmates, they can gain support and encouragement from their classmates which can help increase their confidence and motivation to learn about financial investments and other related topics.

For colour-blind students, cooperative learning in small groups can also greatly assist them in learning about finance.
Firstly, it improves communication skills: cooperative learning can help students with colour blindness to develop their communication skills, which is crucial in the finance and investment field. By working in a group, students with colour blindness can practice expressing their ideas and opinions to others.
What’s more, it increases accessibility: Firstly, it improves communication skills: Cooperative learning can help students with colour blindness. For example, some visual table patterns used to teach about specific financial concepts often exist in different colours to increase the visualisation of information. For teacher, they may have different feeling on the colour patterns and picture since they are the editor of those stuff instead of a audience. This is where cooperative learning provides the opportunity for students to share the feeling of watching those colour patterns and images to their colour-blind peers what is displayed on the screen.

Cooperative learning has unique characteristics for homemakers and colour-blind students.

Social interaction: Cooperative learning provides opportunities for students to interact and build relationships with each other, which is especially important for homemakers who may not get out to socialise as often.
Inclusive: Cooperative learning can help create a more inclusive classroom environment where all students, including those who are colour blind, feel valued and included.
Get involved: Cooperative learning encourages active participation and commitment, which can be particularly beneficial for homemakers who have limited previous experience in formal education.

Overall, cooperative learning have many unit effective impact on educating housewife and colour blindness students.