How to Develop Learners’ Collaborative Problem Solving Skills by Teacher Academy

Filomena, Ital

prof_montella — 2016-09-26 08:57:46 UTC

Marcela,Italy

2016-09-26 09:23:05 UTC

Reflection is one of important Education

Margherita, Italy

2016-09-26 10:26:13 UTC

Fantastic and clear. Collaborative Problem Solving is an important strategy. Also the paper is useful and explains the professor's opinion. Read it, if you haven't already do

Berit, Germany

2016-09-26 10:48:17 UTC

What we often discuss among colleagues is the question og HOW to make EACH student contribute and ACTIVELY participate in collaborative learning sessions. I would highly appreciaty your ideas on that question

Patrícia,Portugal

2016-09-26 10:49:32 UTC

I believe we need to help our students understand that life should be more about cooperation than competition if we want to live in a better society in the future. We need to help them develop their cognitive skills in a way that they know that other colleagues can use their own skills to help them.

Tine, Dk

2016-09-26 11:04:25 UTC

Challenge is to bring pupils to this way of thinking and dokumenting :-)

Silvia, Italy

silvia_cantarelliesl — 2016-09-26 11:32:17 UTC

Personally, I think one of the strong points of exploiting collaborative problem solving work in our classes is that it involves the use of social skills, such as cooperation and communication) together with more cognitive skills (such a problem solving and critical thinking)

Marta

martapcallis — 2016-09-26 12:12:45 UTC

Very clear overview of what collaborative problem solving involves.

Claudia T., Italy

2016-09-26 12:17:38 UTC

In my experience I noticed that in almost each group there is one or more students who are not collaboratively involved. How should we deal with that?

Claudia T., Italy

2016-09-26 12:17:38 UTC

In my experience I noticed that in almost each group there is one or more students who are not collabor

Anita, Zadar, Croatia

simac57 — 2016-09-26 12:20:34 UTC

Great video, well explained. Problem solving projects require lots of work but it is very rewarding. Open ended questions..what if ? These are very important.

Anna,Italy

2016-09-26 12:38:41 UTC

Collaboration,creative thinking,team work are all important..unfortunately often we work side byside teachers that don't want to change their way to teach. I think every teachers should be formed and partecipating,because what we can create in our class can be something more and more interesting and useful if work in team and communication are focused teachers points. And especially pupils have to breath this collaboration and communication in primis inter docentes so they can put into practise every day in their class when they have to solve problems or work in team.

Simona Italy

2016-09-26 13:02:41 UTC

During my experience, I have noticed that motivation is one fo the most important key in order to develop learner's collaborative problem solving skill

Francesca Italy,

francesca_neiviller — 2016-09-26 13:04:30 UTC

I think that motivation is the key word to base our teaching method! The second is working together, in a sort of peer learning and teaching activity ,where together we set rules, and the team is the strategy to be applied, because everybody is necessary! Because this activity cannot be done alone!! And when you see they find difficulties, it's advisable not to impose, but share the problem by putting hypothesis!!! finally communication is another keyword that must be learned!!! ,By working together students learn to communicate correctly in order to work together!!! And solve the problem when they have it. Finally it's always important to challenge what students have done and how they would have done it in a different way!!1 ,put the ladder a little bit higher than the students usually do it.

Alberto, Italy

abertozzi68 — 2016-09-26 13:08:33 UTC

Fantastic and clear

Pia, DK

2016-09-26 13:13:58 UTC

What Prof. Patrick Griffin says about formative assessment is an eye-opener to me. Formative assessment = always challenge the student to go to a higher level. Ask: what if...

Laura, Italy

laurasisca73 — 2016-09-26 13:31:19 UTC

Collaborative problem-solving is very important for communication, exchange of ideas, identification of the problem.

Annachiara, Italy

ac_demartino — 2016-09-26 13:45:22 UTC

I agree with every single word, but I noticed that it's not always possible identify the contribution of each student.

Marida Vitulli, Italy

marida_vitulli — 2016-09-26 13:46:37 UTC

Wonderful! Very clear. I have been working on PBL for two years and this really changed my way of teaching.

Irène - Belgium: answer for Berit - Germany

2016-09-26 14:02:20 UTC

Integrating as many structural cooperative structures ( from Spencer Kagan) as possible in the PBL-assignment.

Mitanka, Bulgaria

mimetomt1 — 2016-09-26 14:05:20 UTC

It's an interesting as well as important topic.

Despoina Amarantidou, Greece

damarant — 2016-09-26 14:05:36 UTC

Motivation is one very important aspect enhanced by choosing interesting topics for the projects. Moreover, use of IT and Web tools is always appealing to students.

Cristina, Italia

2016-09-26 14:09:15 UTC

The paper is useful and explains the professor's opinion.
Collaborative problem-solving is very important for communication.

Maria Lisitsina, Armenia

marialisitsina17 — 2016-09-26 14:15:24 UTC

It is very interesting, important and useful video! Thanks

Sara Dionisi

sara_dionisi — 2016-09-26 14:19:06 UTC

Motivation, working together, collaboration and communication are keywords to be learned.

Nadia, Italy

nadiagab91 — 2016-09-26 14:22:45 UTC

I like the words collaboration and negotiation: two competences necessary nowadays at school and at work. School should teach what is really required in the real world of economy.

Paola, Italy

2016-09-26 14:23:50 UTC

Problem solving requires an important work but the hard work is paid back in the end.

Francesca Barile - Italy

francesca_barile50 — 2016-09-26 14:49:48 UTC

I liked how a collaborative work and is defined and what is required for a good cooaborative problem solution. " Students can simultaneously access the tasks and interact with one another via the Internet to explore potential procedures and strategies that would help them solve a complex problem" In our class we often assist to a very different situation: some students work hard, and some of them do nothing. This is the essential aspect we have to overcome.In a collaborative problem-solving task each participant should have his/her control , knowledge, expertise, experience, materials or objects that are essential to the completion of the task, or the problem solution.

Rosa Di Lonardo/Italy

rosadilonardo — 2016-09-26 15:21:10 UTC

For me the words collaboration and negotiation are very helpfu and important. They are two competences necessary nowadays at school and at work. School should teach what is really required in the real world of economy.

Alessia Cogato, Italy

prof_alessia — 2016-09-26 15:33:21 UTC

to me, student's patecipation is they only key for a real learning. I don't want my students to sleep while I try to explain them some difficult subjects. I want them to ask me and to ask themeselves. I love working in a school for agriculture because most of the students have their own farm and they always are ready to tell the class their personal experience.

Fina Daniela Lombardo, Italy, sicily

icgalilei — 2016-09-26 15:40:53 UTC

Collaborative problem solving is therefore defined as a joint activity where two or more people work together to contribute knowledge, skills, materials and procedures and move through a series of cognitive states that involve collection and analysis of information and the formulation of hypotheses that they jointly set out to test.
thanks for the wonderful lesson

Uğur TÜRK

2016-09-26 15:48:38 UTC

Isabella, Italy

m_isa — 2016-09-26 16:00:51 UTC

Problem solving provides the opportunity for all students to see things from different points of view.

Laura r, Italy

2016-09-26 16:06:04 UTC

wow...maybe I got how to help my Students with Special needs both to integrate as well as better improve their skills. sure the others will enjoy and appreciate the initiative. not sure for the colleagues :)

Francesca Italy

2016-09-26 16:07:27 UTC

the concept of knowledge building: this concept is the foundation of our work. It is very important that that the students, and young people in general, are be able to informed citizens with critical thinking. Information, creativity, ethics, awareness, .... All these words are very important for me and in my work but before "we must know ourselves"

Rosanna B. ItalyIam a science teacher and for me it is very important the collaboration of the boys in the classroom. I pose a question that concerns older topics that connect to what I am writing on the blackboard. It's nice to see the students who find solutions and create new formulas.

mauros98 — 2016-09-26 16:14:36 UTC

lauracensi — 2016-09-26 16:29:24 UTC

lauracensi — 2016-09-26 16:29:27 UTC

Kristina Kaučić, Croatia

2016-09-26 16:32:42 UTC

Collaboration and negotiation are the key words. Offering our students new challenges is very important.

carmela castronovo

2016-09-26 16:34:28 UTC

It's very important that pupils collaborate in their group and they could give their contribute and play their part to carry out a project. So they could compare their ideas with others and enrich themselves culturally.

Luisa M.

2016-09-26 16:58:39 UTC

Collaboration is very important . Everyone gives his contribution in the way he can do it, and even shy pupils are stimulated to take part at the activities

sara sardinia

sarossa — 2016-09-26 17:07:49 UTC

this was indeed a great interview...albeit terrifying.

Oksana, Ukraine

2016-09-26 17:20:56 UTC

It's very nice when students are eager to know and try to find true answers. but what if they don't? How can we make them to?

Maria Luisa, Turin

mlgenta — 2016-09-26 17:21:23 UTC

Communication, collaboration and changing the teacher's practices are the key concepts. It is a great challenge but it is worth the effort.

Carla Diogo, Portugal

carladiogo31 — 2016-09-26 17:23:01 UTC

Fantastic interview and fantastic suggestions were given. I do not have doubts that these strategies are the ones that should be used by teachers to prepare 21st century citizens. The huge step is to make Students realise that they also need to change their approach to learning and start working in team and not in groups

Isa Federico, Italy

isacleliafederico60 — 2016-09-26 17:26:09 UTC

It's very particular the english term" to tailor" used in this video for formative assessment! In fact teachers have the difficult task to "tailor" their teaching to students as a real dress!

Marilia

g_marilia_santos — 2016-09-26 17:32:41 UTC

Another interesting video, the information given was very clear. It's urgent that we change our way of teaching

Stefania, Ital

progetto_legalita_ebiagi — 2016-09-26 17:36:02 UTC

Got everything but what exactly can formative assessment

Stefania, Italy

progetto_legalita_ebiagi — 2016-09-26 17:39:35 UTC

I got everything, but what exactly formative assessment means in a practical way. I'm not sure I will always be able to put the "what if.." question, as I'm not sure I will be able to understand how to increase the students' learning or thinking. Sometimes I felt very interesting the solutions my students gave to their inquiry tasks... and I was so happy! Should I have had to look for a further step?

Sara Di Berardino, Italy

2016-09-26 17:58:16 UTC

The collaborative Group work is very interesting but it is no easy as when I try to do it i some of my lessons, there is Always someone who, for different reasons, doesn't collaborate. How can we manage this problem?

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anavenmolina — 2016-09-26 18:08:57 UTC

Ana Ventura, Spain

anavenmolina — 2016-09-26 18:08:57 UTC

Great interview. Collaborative work is obviously one of the keys to teach in the 21st Century. I like this approach a lot even though I am afraid I am not quite prepared to take it into the classroom. Maybe in a near future...

Simona. Italy

2016-09-26 18:41:31 UTC

Very interesting!

Maria Pia -Italy

conte_marp — 2016-09-26 19:02:55 UTC

Very important video.

Monica, Lisboa, Portugal

2016-09-26 19:20:49 UTC

Really important video about the nature of collaborative problem solving. and how to. Differentiate group work and collaborative group work focusing on communication and technology as a tool to do it. Formative assessment seems to me as a discussion to encourage other perspectives to solve aproblem

Angela A., Italy

2016-09-26 19:35:55 UTC

Very interesting Video. Thanks for useful guidelines for developing collaborative projects!

Salva, Spain

salprosm1 — 2016-09-26 19:50:10 UTC

I ve never seen before the idea of collaborative problem solving as an activity where two or more people work together to contribute knowledge, skills, materials and procedures and move through a series of cognitive states. I had a tendency to focus on the outcome of the team and forget the importance of the collaborative work and the sharing of their knowledge.
Really interesting!!!!!

Maria Luisa C. Italy

righiteacherluisa — 2016-09-26 20:02:17 UTC

After watching this video my doubts about how to improve collaboratve problem - solving skills have been cleared up
Anyway I'd like to know if the teacher has to give specific tasks to each student in each group or students in the group can share tasks on their own.
I agree when he says digital tools can help but the most important part is discussion
I understand that the formative assessment is not a mark ( very good) but a review . I suppose I should use both .

Derya C., Turkey

2016-09-26 20:15:14 UTC

do, say, write, produce.. these make Colloborative problem solving differentiated from individual problem solving.

Alberto B. - Italy

2016-09-26 20:33:42 UTC

I am wondering how to concretely motivate every single student to participate a CPS activity. Unfortunately, in huge classes individual and group attitudes play a crucial role and often resistance is hard to overcome.

Aida, Italy

2016-09-26 20:42:28 UTC

It's difficult to implement this approach in the classrooms. Children in Perimary School in Italy can't move in the small space and, if they work in groups, there is the responsible contribution of a small part of the children. It's not easy to engage the whole group..

Maria Cornelia from Roumania

mariaanghel64 — 2016-09-26 21:15:51 UTC

The problem is the number of students in the class. They must be guided permanently and it seems to me verry difficult to move between the groups, to observe their work, if all are involved and participate in the activity. The space and the large number of students is the main problem.

Marta Maria Spaccavento (Italy)

2016-09-26 21:17:51 UTC

I think priority should be given to collaborative problem solving competences. Students should feel fre and above all should be able to cope with their task each from a different point of view. However, the real challenge is to have all of them collaborate, sometime some of them prefer a passive attitude.

Graça Carneiro, Portugal

graca_carneiro — 2016-09-26 22:35:21 UTC

Great interview! Fantastic ideas about collaborative problem solving! The distinction between group work and collaborative work was quite clear! Collaborative problem solving implies that students communicate with each other, share ideas, establish plans, agree on solutions - in short: learn actively. I look forward to listening to Professor Patrick Griffin again about assessment, on Module 3.

Amelia De Chiara, Italy

amelia_dechiara — 2016-09-26 22:48:28 UTC

Collaboration is a joint effort of different individuals who put together their ideas, actions, souls and works to achieve a common goal.

But sometimes, in huge classes, there's the individual that wants to put himself in the centre of the work and there's the other one who doesn' t collaborate at all. How can we reach a balance, an effective collaboration of all the members of the group?

Valentina, Bulgaria

valia_tr — 2016-09-27 00:38:55 UTC

Great interview. I agree- the collaborative work is obviously one of the keys to teach in the 21st Century.

Olga Keramida-Greece

2016-09-27 02:55:20 UTC

"For collaborative problem solving tasks,the cognitive and social skills learners need to apply and teachers need to observe." That's the key

Linda,Latvia

linduxp — 2016-09-27 04:46:56 UTC

Can’t wait for farther methods and suggestions for project work. Sounds really challenging and tempting to try. Giving roles sounds essential and providing evidence through documentation and so on.

Thank you Professor Griffin

2016-09-27 05:34:29 UTC

Francesca, Italy

francesca_giaffreda — 2016-09-27 07:37:03 UTC

The smaller the class is, the better it works. A teacher can control the work proceeding. Unfortunately in Italy we often have big problems in working in groups in a classroom because of the large number of pupils in a class.

Dora, Greece

2016-09-27 08:08:18 UTC

A great paper that analyses the development of learners' collaborative problem solving skills!!! KSAVE Frameworks summarises what is needed for a profitable collaboration and a desired outcome!!!

Jasna, Croatia

2016-09-27 08:08:34 UTC

I agree with all of you that these ideas are great but I am not sure if I could make them work. Our school system is very much behind such ideas (therefore I take part in this course !)

2016-09-27 09:27:09 UTC

Very interesting examples and a new idea of collaboration : everyboby must! I found interesting the new approch to problem solving as "collaborative problem solving".

Dorina, Romania

dorina_miclaus — 2016-09-27 13:26:34 UTC

There's a clear cut distinction between group work and collaborative work which I have never thought about. I have always considered that you can do collaborative work only within a group of participants, whether each of them take part in it or not. Professor Griffin states that in a collaborative work group each of the people involved need to participate and to take everybody's perspective into consideration, in order to shape his or her personal contribution. Which is quite enriching and empowering, in terms of critical thinking, problem solving and other important skills so much focused in this approach. I appreciate this and I would like to find ways to put it into practice.

Filipa, Portugal

2016-09-27 13:39:19 UTC

Well, I've been reading some of the posts here and I agree with those who say that was a great interview because Professor Griffin was very clear all the time.
At the same time, I understand those who think it's going to be difficult and that we have to many students inside our classroom to do it.
It's all about changing...it's not easy to "get out" of your classroom and let the kids do it by themselves. At first it will be messy, than you have to adjust each day a little bit...it would take time...you will have to fight against yourself not to do what you were used to...until it's a routine and student's just do it and you are only the maestro at a lovely orchestra.
Is easier when you work this way in several subjects because you may notice the evolution sooner but...don't give up.

Nadya, Bulgaria

nstankova68 — 2016-09-27 14:11:10 UTC

A great idea for collaboration. Collaborative work with students at Middle and High school is a perfect way to develop their communicative, social and team skills.

Marcella, Ital

marfu7 — 2016-09-27 14:32:21 UTC

Teachers play a critical role in promoting interactions among students and engaging them in the learning process. In a cooperative learning approach, students and teachers are in a state of dynamic interaction in the classroom. When students interact in cooperative groups, they learn to give and receive information, develop new understandings and perspectives and of course develope their problem soving skills too.

Giedrė, Lithuania

gied_jon — 2016-09-27 14:37:45 UTC

There is one thing i missed. It would be nice to see an example of project based teaching,

Marianthi Arvanitidou -Greece

1canislupus22 — 2016-09-27 14:39:22 UTC

Collaboratively resolving problems with kids isn’t necessarily all that complicated, but it isn’t something most of us have had a lot of practice at (probably because it hasn’t been standard operating procedure with children), so it can take a while for all involved to feel comfortable with the process. Figuring out what skills a child is lacking can be a bit more complicated, however, especially if one is unfamiliar with the types of skills involved.

Paola Villa

paolavilla361 — 2016-09-27 14:44:50 UTC

In Italy such an approach has been adopted in technical schools where students are confronted with more concrete issues. Unfortunately we still have to change our habits and mentality in more 'academic subjects' where students don't contribute in a collaborative way as suggested but listen passively to the source of information, whether it is the teacher or the web.
Thanks for making us reflect on a new perspective!

Clara, Portugal

claraabegao — 2016-09-27 14:45:40 UTC

One major factor that contributes to the success of CPS is effective communication among team members, i.e., communicating the right information and reporting what actions have been taken to the right person at the right time. Students must also be able to establish and maintain an effective organisation of the team and to understand the type of collaboration and associated rules of engagement.

Daniela -Italy. The big problem in my classes is the number of people attending. Coordinating their work is very difficult! Moreover they when they work

2016-09-27 15:07:37 UTC

Francesca, Italy

2016-09-27 15:33:36 UTC

Sometimes it's difficult to involve all the member of the group in the work. May be I have to change or to pose in a different way the starting question.

Emiliana, Italy

emiliana_rufo — 2016-09-27 15:44:21 UTC

In collaborative PBL activities the student is at the centre of the learning process. The students take responsibility for their studies and they feel encouraged to collaborate in group projects. The learning structure that is realized in a cooperative leaning class involves also a modification of the teacher-student roles.
Collaboration is the sharing of ideas, acceptance of the differences and capability to mediate. It is respect for the others and respect for one's own self. Collaboration is sharing.

Maria Antonietta, Italy

2016-09-27 16:01:04 UTC

Undoubtedly all students benefit from learning how to identify and articulate their issues, hearing the concerns of others, and considering each others’ viewpoints in working towards a common goal.

Innocenza, Italy

2016-09-27 16:35:56 UTC

A very interesting and meaningful way of planning. The key-words are collaboration, interaction, participation, organization.

Maria Nikolova

maria_n_ss — 2016-09-27 16:37:28 UTC

Very exceptional video! Every teacher should watch it.

Patseba — 2016-09-27 16:39:49 UTC

Essentially it need to endorse the "fusing" of traditional academic disciplines with skills including critical thinking, communication, creativity, and collaboration; these are contextualised within life and career skills, and technology and media skills. Very good!!!!

Roberta, Italy

r_gramenzi — 2016-09-27 16:49:45 UTC

All of us should engage in involving students in non-routine activities, so that their responses are not automated, but they must collaborate to solve a given problem sharing previous knowledge, strategies, resources, etc. Only in this case we can develop our student's social, communicative and cognitive skills. These skills will be indispensable in the real life outside schools.

Triantafyllia

sivakatr — 2016-09-27 16:55:23 UTC

Questioning in a different way

Giuseppina Serini, Italy

prof_g_serini — 2016-09-27 17:07:29 UTC

Propose and coordinate a job of this type, requires time and efficient technological means. I still interesting The problem-solving, which enables the development of metacognition. It stands KSAVE: knowledge, skills, attitudes, values and ethics, it riessume effectively.

Rosalba Puddu, Italy

rosalba_puddu — 2016-09-27 17:17:20 UTC

It is very interesting this approach: All of us should change our way of thinking and our teaching practice.in a global world everybody schould collaborate and give an active contribution to solve the problems. So it is better that our students learn as soon as possible to be collaborative, critical thinkers in recognising and analysing problems ,posing specific questions avoiding generalisations. With the PBL approach they must actively contribute, because they are obliged, because everyone has got a specific role, they must look at the problem from a different perspective. Only if all communicate and participate actively, respecting all the rules, they can solve the problem or find the best possible solution. The teacher's role is to take the critical thinking at higher levels in order to improve students' performanc

Stefka D.,

stefkadamyanova — 2016-09-27 17:31:58 UTC

Stefka D.,

stefkadamyanova — 2016-09-27 17:32:03 UTC

"And

Stefka D.,

stefkadamyanova — 2016-09-27 17:32:04 UTC

"And what if ...?"
I like this video so much. I'll try to change my questions.

Camilla, Italy

2016-09-27 17:37:06 UTC

I’ve watched the video and I’ve read the paper with great attention and interest. I believe in collaboration and I think that collaborative problem solving is a remarkable skill to enhance.

I began my working career as a primary teacher in 1990, and I still remember how happy I was when I discovered that my pupils appreciated group working activities much more than individual ones. Now I am teaching in a secondary school and my students – teenagers – need more and more involving and motivating activities. Group work activities are no longer suitable for them, they need to carry out collaborative activities, in order to be more efficient, effective and observable (do-say-write-make/produce).

I appreciate the intrinsic values of collaborative problem solving: students collaborate, communicate, contribute, and think critically. Their active participation is necessary. Both their social and cognitive competences are required and practised.

It's a great opportunity!

Silena, Italy: thank a lot, I didn't know the differences between a collaborative group and a work of group. The concept is very useful, and it can make us able to improve competences , like critical thinking and comunication.

2016-09-27 17:45:57 UTC

Fina V, Catalonia

fvendrel — 2016-09-27 17:47:30 UTC

Absolutely agree with the video: Collaborative work means all the members taking part with different roles. Do, say, write, make...
But what about a teacher alone among 25-30 students in a class? huge groups mean many different social situations, needs, perspectives... quite difficult to cope with.
Seeing practical examples would be great. the theory is fantastic, now we need to see real cases.

Enrica, Italy

2016-09-27 18:03:39 UTC

I understand the key role of formative assessment both for students and teachers and the importance of a collaborative problem- solving approach. However, I still find it difficult to assess students individually in a collaborative task, as each one contributes in a different way and relies on different-level initial skills. I hope Module 3, or your comments on this topic, can help me tackle this difficulty

Eliana, Siracusa

elianasalvo — 2016-09-27 18:09:50 UTC

Interesting but not easy video .First of all, I find it important the difference between skills and competences:a skill is an action a person can perform and competence is the ability of the person to adjust the skill performance to the demands of the context. Secondly the difference between

Bijan Chowdhury, Bangladesh

bijanc — 2016-09-27 18:10:01 UTC

In my area, teacher are usually apply a group work as teaching learning part. Teachers are till now facing challenges to ensure students' active participation in group. But collaborative work is more critical than group work. this is very useful pedagogical methodology. for successful application this approach in classroom require more practice .

Ida Italy

DT22 — 2016-09-27 18:10:10 UTC

I think that it is important that all of students can have a role into an interdipendent collaborative group.

Filippa F., Italy

2016-09-27 18:11:19 UTC

communication, collaboration are the key steps for the growth of our students, as they learn how useful is to work in group, sharing experience and ideas. But it is not so easy to change our way of teaching because thera are many barriers in this new domain.

Loredana , Italy

2016-09-27 18:21:42 UTC

I've watched the video with great interest. I completely agree with professor Patrick Griffin, a collaborative problem solving task gives the learners the opportunity to comunicate and see the problem from different perspectives. As he says in a group everybody MUST.....
Besides a collaborative problem solving helps the learners to develop their critical thinking, while the teacher through a formative assessment can guide them towards higher steps.

Vittoria Bari ITALY

2016-09-27 18:32:27 UTC

I'm perfectly agreed with you, Patrick, but the real problem is that we, many times, are not able to be a good example of communication and collaboratione to our students... I think that this is the great real problem... a certain type of incoerence between what we want to do and what we are able to be....

rosaria_testini — 2016-09-27 18:38:26 UTC

Serenella Silenzi Macerata Italy

s_silenzi — 2016-09-27 18:44:35 UTC

From the video I have realized that one of the main problems of PBL is assessment. In particular formative assessment can really be a great catalyst for learning.

Maria Concetta

2016-09-27 19:17:32 UTC

Manuella, Belgium

manuella_borghs — 2016-09-27 19:20:07 UTC

It would be nice to receive this transcription also as a reader, to share it with my colleagues. It is really enriching!!

CAMILLA

csigralli — 2016-09-27 19:32:21 UTC

I've watched the video twice,now I really understand the difference between group work and collaborative work. My pupils are always enthusiastic to work in group but sometimes this teaching practise in not effective, because not all children contribute. Maybe the tasks , that they have to face, is not so motivating. I need to see practical examples about collaborative work, and I need to practise more in my teaching.

Rita, Enna

2016-09-27 19:36:18 UTC

Very interesting indeed.
I always drive students to think critically.

Alice,Italy

severi_alice — 2016-09-27 19:46:37 UTC

I think that collaboration is useful to reduce competition and create a good environment in class. Teacher role is important to led work and guide students.

Raffaella Aiuppa , Italy

raffa702010 — 2016-09-27 19:56:17 UTC

Key words from this lesson:
Collaboration
Single contribution is important
Communication
Technology

Lorenzo Bordonaro, Italy

lorebordo — 2016-09-27 20:11:22 UTC

This I learned from the video: communication is the basis of collaborative work and is the element to solve problems collaboratively!

Angelamaria Galderisi, Italy

soleemare_a — 2016-09-27 20:11:57 UTC

Video Talk 2 is really interesting. First of all it explains that collaborative problem solving is where two or more students work tohether to solve a commonly understood problem. Secondly it underlines the importance of the three Cs in working together towards a common goal: collaboration, critical thinking and communicative skills. Then it states that everybody must contribute to problem analysis and testing hypotheses. Finally, last but not least, when we collaborate we have to use four things: what we do other people can see – what we say other people can hear – what we write other people can read – what we produce other people can use.

Linda, Croatia

2016-09-27 20:39:36 UTC

I knew that formative assessment has a great role in learning of a students but we in Croatia still does not use this sort of assessment for real. This kind of assessment is directly involved with individualised approach to student. Teacher must know a lot about student to help him or her to how much his her progression can go. I wonder if in other countries initial education includes the ways of formative assessment.

Isabel Graça, Portugal

2016-09-27 20:56:10 UTC

I think the “How” to Develop Learners’ Collaborative Problem Solving Skills is well explained: in short it “requires that the people combine their resources and their strategies in order to reach a common goal.” However, about teacher’s assessment practices, how will we be able to adjust toward assessment that helps to find the starting point for instruction and ways to tailor our teaching to students learning social and cognitive skills associated with collaborative problem-solving???
In current structure of schools, only a Super-Teacher kryptonite immune! :)

Ivana Ľuptáčiková

luptacikova_ivana — 2016-09-27 21:23:03 UTC

Very, very interesting and inspiring. I need to listen it again because it seems to me that I will find advices in almost every sentences which professor Griffin has said.

Paola Sinigaglia,Italy

sinipas — 2016-09-27 21:38:49 UTC

Inspiring, but I need time to go back and understand more deeply both the video and the paper.
The concepts I perceive as essential: collaboration can't occur without all the participants' contribution; communication is a tool for collaboration and at the same time a goal; adjustment (to the continuous development and change of society) is what turns a skill into competence; challenge (what if ..) to scaffold critical thinking ...

The evidence: what we can see, hear, read or use; if each member of the group inolved in the collaborative problem solving find his place and partecipate there is a good work, and the evidences will demonstrate it; but communication is foundamental to achieve all this

2016-09-27 21:53:12 UTC

Paola, Italy

paolamancininorma — 2016-09-27 21:59:33 UTC

This video is really interesting. Absolutely agree with the Video.
PBL encourages students to pose questions and find solution. They must collaborate! As Teachers, we are all aware that our students questions are magnets to their Learning.

Martina, Italy

tosomartina — 2016-09-28 06:58:24 UTC

This is quite challenging and requires the teacher's role attitude change.

Eva, Hungary

user_1412222535 — 2016-09-28 07:03:11 UTC

This is the only way to prepare our students for the world of work

Kateryna Kramnychna, Ukraine

rocksy_12 — 2016-09-28 07:04:04 UTC

I agree with the main idea of collaborative organisation: EVERYBODY MUST contribute. So that noone can hide and refuse doing the task!
Thanks!

SilviaB., Italy

silviabrazzoni — 2016-09-28 07:37:16 UTC

Teamwork is essential in order to compete, change their perspective, strengthen their knowledge, learn to socialize. By driving the boys in problem solving situations we have to put emphasis on questions to do. Activating a metacognition path, that is wondering if the steps that are being addressed are fair, are exhaustive, will lead to a reflection on the learning process and a constructive review of the work. The key, as also says Prof. Griffin, is communication.

Josefina, Spain

2016-09-28 08:48:04 UTC

Participation, taking the perspective of others, how we organize are responsive to contribute, social regulation, cognitive skills are essential too,, nobody can do it on their own they need to analyse and see patterns, rules ... reaching the point to make students test their critical thinking skills.

Ana Martinčević

novoselic_ana — 2016-09-28 11:28:43 UTC

OŠ "Mladost", Osijek
Very detailed explanation. Like and explained the stages which should all do and what to look for. It is important that each student contributes and works.

Alessandro Ruffino/Italy

2016-09-28 12:59:48 UTC

Collaboration is an important procedure to solve a problem, students must work in team where each one gives his contribute (participate), only in this way we can prepare them to face real world :-)

Vasiliki Psaridou/Greece

psaridou — 2016-09-28 13:22:44 UTC

Forming groups in the class is very important but it doesn't solve problems. We have to teach the students how to collaborate and to work with each other in order to produce work. Everybody must contribute, as Patrick said.

Lia from Italy

lia_molini — 2016-09-28 14:26:46 UTC

The strength of the PBL is that in collaborative problem solving everybody must contribute. In fact, everybody has a role inside the group and this is good to make everybody participate in the activity.

Marchilia Volini, Naples, Italy

marchilia — 2016-09-28 14:36:28 UTC

Prof.Griffin "What if... Teachers do not have the progression of increasingly higher levels of thinking in mind?" :D

Liliana, Italy

2016-09-28 15:10:08 UTC

I really appreciate the quality of these videos in MOdule 2. In particular, I found the final part of this video very envolving. The idea of formative assessment not in terms of GOOD OR BAD but in terms of WHAT IF is really changelling, not only for students, but for us first of all!

Francesco, Italy

babelemultilab — 2016-09-28 15:25:17 UTC

This video explains very well what is the collaborative problem solving methodology. It's a way to directly involve students n thinking processes applied to concrete problem of real life. This is the essence of competence.

Pinelopi, Greece

2016-09-28 15:56:49 UTC

Impressed though I am by what I heard in Prof. Griffin's lecture, I have to admit that using collaborative problem solving skills in secondary education, the way the Professor proposes, seems absolutely impossible to me! Impossible because time is not enough to allow the implementation of so demanding tasks in public Greek schools. It all reminds me of University assignments which are quite challenging but I doubt whether we can work on such a high level in secondary education for ex.. It seems to be the ideal educational tool but it's hard to implement. I strongly feel, though, that the principles on which the collaborative problem solving is based are worth careful evaluation especially by teachers who, like me, work in educational environments not friendly to this innovative way of teaching.

Cinzia,Italy

2016-09-28 16:07:05 UTC

I think that it is important that all of students can have a role into an interdipendent collaborative group.

Arianna, Italy

2016-09-28 16:15:41 UTC

The main focus of collaborative working is COMMUNICATION, since it allows students to interpret phenomena and to shape their opinion according to what the others think and propose to do.
Multiple brains working together move a mountain....A lonely genius can do nothing.

Angelina Alberico, Italy

2016-09-28 17:26:07 UTC

Work in groups in the classroom is crucial, because the student learns to share ideas and to respect the rules of the group and therefore of society for a future in the world of work.

Johannes Steinl, Germany

2016-09-28 17:29:03 UTC

I believe the framework of collaborative task is effective to transport the competences mentioned in the video. I, however, consider it an effort of also early education to prepare children/students for these environments. I, mean, they have to have strategies to interact, to solve problems, to communicate effectively, to join the discussion and so on. I experience numerous instances where emotional factors determine the participation in a certain group. People are shy, others are stronger, louder and so on. Thus I believe it is quintessential to lay the foundation for effective collaborative work early and strengthen the students' confidence. This, yet, for me is an approach that is often neglected in discussions. We want them to work together, but do we prepare them properly?

Vanessa, Malta I just realised I want students to work collaboratively not simply in groupwork! DO, SAY, MAKE, WRITE as evidence of their contribution. I also like the idea of asking how could it have been done better...amalgamating the collaborative work with enquiry based learning

2016-09-28 17:38:21 UTC

Carla, Italy

2016-09-28 17:42:20 UTC

Professor Patrick Griffin has been illuminating about the importance of communicate in learning!

Simona D, Italy

simonadepaola22 — 2016-09-28 17:54:51 UTC

Communicating, negotiate, cooperating are relevant skills in students' life. School is a training moment when they can develop these skills, so requested at work. The school in this way becomes very close to real life to the world outside. Class is a small reproduction of the society.

Annamaria - Italy

2016-09-28 19:08:11 UTC

I found particularly interesting the distinction between problem-solving by an individual and collaborative problem-solving.

Liene Lace, Latvia

2016-09-28 19:40:46 UTC

Well, I see teaching as a real challenge as collaborative problem solving skill is something I have to develop/ improve myself. I enjoyed the talk and wrote down some points to share later with colleagues. I hope we will collaborate.

Francesca

francesca_lombardi1973 — 2016-09-28 19:50:54 UTC

What a fantastic explanation.Thanks a lot for clarify the difference between an individual problem solving and a collaborative problem solving. I appreciate a lot when you suggest challenges for the students. When pupils are provided with a challenge, they are given the possibility to work together to solve the challenge by discussing various strategies, communicating their ideas, putting their plans into action and having fun.
The resulting decisions are based on creative thinking, communication, and collaboration.

Valentina P., Macedonia

vale1820 — 2016-09-28 20:02:53 UTC

I've started a PBL in my classroom last week based on PBL MOOC. Today as the activity progressed, one of my students just said, 'Well, I love this! Even contributes and works with the rest of the team!' Now, the student X usually tries to avoid all work and loves group work because he can hide behind his peers' work. This time, he can't!

I believe this is the collaboration that Professor Griffin talks about in the interview.

Giovanna Italy

giovannagalimberti — 2016-09-28 20:32:10 UTC

Collaborative problem solving represents a real approach to increase the skills for our students cognitive and social skills.
It's attractive the possibility for everyone to give a contribute..
The studends can also compare the other point of wiews.Professor Griffin explained in a clear way the link between formative assesment and collaborative problem sol

Maria Grassi, Italy

marinellagrassi3 — 2016-09-28 20:39:13 UTC

As a teacher I want to change my way of teaching and I share Professor Griffin's thesis but it's too hard and difficult to achieve positive feedback when you are alone....it's necessary an all team teachers' help....especially when we use metacognitive strategies, I don't have many hours to stay in a class. Collaborating is a key word in these cases.

Maria, Italy

m_saponaro — 2016-09-28 20:53:12 UTC

I m considering to use these challenges in the teaching of literature. Challenges can really ignite the students' brains, it can help to think deeper, to see beyond.

Anna, Italy

2016-09-28 20:56:20 UTC

A very clear explanation stressing once again that we are not only preparing students to meet the requests of the job market bu that we should help them to think critically, to question everything they learn so as to be better equipped to deal with the requests of a fast changing world.

Adriana, Italy

2016-09-28 21:01:40 UTC

I find Professor Griffin’s overview on collaborative problem solving tasks quite inspiring. I think the advantages of exploiting a collaborative problem solving work in class is that it involves the use of social skills, such as cooperation, communication, negotiation with more cognitive skills such as problem solving and critical thinking. The disadvantages are that pupils’ active participation (they must interact! They must cooperate! ) is necessary and this does not always happen! :(

Sonia Galderisi, Italy

sonia_galderisi — 2016-09-28 21:09:21 UTC

Sonia Galderisi, Italy

sonia_galderisi — 2016-09-28 21:15:19 UTC

This Video talk is very interesting and underlines the importance of collaboration, critical thinking and communicative skills in the PBL approach. Through it students

can compare their thoughts, see the things from another point of view and debate among them to find solutions or reach the objectives, previously established in the project plan. Furthermore they can make their resources available to all their mates to investigate, explore and make hypothesis to find different solutions to the problem solving.

Veronica, Ital

2016-09-28 21:27:28 UTC

Once again another very motivating explanation of using collaborative problem-solving in the classroom. I particularly liked Professor Griffin's comments about formative assessment and the need to challenge outcomes in a reinforcing and positive way in order to help students reach higher levels. It's so much easier and less stimulating for the student for us as teachers just to say, 'Well done!'.

Fátima, Spain

fagamar40 — 2016-09-28 22:12:58 UTC

Enlightening information, but I still need more to get to the point where I dare to start a PBL with my students

Rita, Italy

ritafagiano — 2016-09-28 22:25:32 UTC

Inspiring and very interesting video! Professor Griffin stresses the differences between working in collaborative problem-solving teams and in groups

Tihana, Croatia

t_svoren_kolarec — 2016-09-29 07:12:04 UTC

This approach to teaching is very challenging because pupils are not used to think for themselves. Our educational system is based on studying for tests and grades. I really like PBL and I think it is important to implement it into curriculum. The old system clearly doesn't work. We as teachers should try to help our pupils develope into young people ready for challenges of 21st century

Carmen C. Italy

carmen_capelli — 2016-09-29 07:26:42 UTC

I need to practise collaborative problem solving myself with collegues first. What I'm worried about assessment of collaborative skills if you have many groups working together if have only reports

Emma giurlani

2016-09-29 07:42:45 UTC

Interesting and illuminating.I find the challenge involved in this learning-teaching approach means a new way of collaboration not only among students but also among teacher.A solid and creative collaboration while planning and designing PBL activities is needed.I Fouad this new Way through eTwinning

Argiro

2016-09-29 08:31:25 UTC

Many abstract terms used, but to the point, as always!

Sónia Soares, Matosinhos, Portugal

2016-09-29 10:01:04 UTC

I understand better the difference between collaborative work and group work. I need to read more to be able to design and improve a PBL!

Mariateresa, Italy

mariateresa_verderame — 2016-09-29 10:05:27 UTC

I like Patrick Griffin and his way of explaining what a PBL is. I like certainly his balance example too, to find the good level of a collaborative problem solving method

Nicoletta Forestiere, Gangi, Italy

nicoletta_forestiere — 2016-09-29 10:41:49 UTC

Thank you professor Griffin for his enlightening overview on this interesting topic. I like all his explanation but I want to stop and think on a specific definition, the difference between "collaborative problem solving" and "individual problem solving" that is communication: the key -word for a mutual sharing and understanding.

Antonio, Italy

ronzoni_scuola — 2016-09-29 12:27:00 UTC

I found very interesting the intervention of prof. Griffin and I share the considerations which he did. In my experience I often try to suggest to boys of the group work but I find it quite hard, with classes of about 24 children and groups of 4 or 5, being able to control that actually all actively contribute to achieving the objective. Probably, in the words of the professor, I have to better focus the group on the basis of the task so that all may be needed.

Maria Graça, Portugal

2016-09-29 12:51:42 UTC

Today I learned the difference between collaborative work and group work, everybody must contribute !
I also learned that communication is the 21 St key competence skill for the collaborative problem solving .

2016-09-29 13:00:10 UTC

gabriella northern italy

2016-09-29 13:13:59 UTC

as professor says it's important the group collaboration about the same problem. collaborating means using different task with different perspective

Sabine

sabine_schryvers — 2016-09-29 13:29:31 UTC

Especially clear and interesting ideas about formative assessment, the "What if..." challenging approach to get students to a higher level. Sounds promising for module 3.

Elena B Italy

teacherEB — 2016-09-29 14:10:06 UTC

Professor Griffin: collaborative work = giving evidence. What we do is what other people can see/ say>hear
write>read/
produce->use. Inspiring!

Chiara Marchesi-Italy

pippicalzelunghe91 — 2016-09-29 14:45:29 UTC

This is really clear but there are quite a lot of things to keep in mind when setting up a pbl Learning activity, a lot of things to manage with and a lot of things to control in the classroom. But it absolutely worth the effort!

2016-09-29 16:01:55 UTC

Lina (Italy)
I think that is it important that all of students can have a role into an interdependent collaborative group.

Eli. Italy

2016-09-29 16:04:28 UTC

I share many of the points Professor Griffin has explained about the collaborative group work. In particular, the necessity that, in a group, all students must contribute, as well as they should have the opportunity (and here is our -as teachers - challenge) to reflect on their progress.

Giovanna Cesare from Italy

giovanna_cesare — 2016-09-29 16:17:14 UTC

Very difficult sometimes to organize groups in a collaborative problem solving activity.

EDELIZIA ITALY NAPLES

profedy67 — 2016-09-29 16:18:11 UTC

I think it's important the group collaboration about the same problem. Collaborating means using different task with different prospective

Carmen Carella, Marche, Italy

2016-09-29 16:25:27 UTC

I found the assumptions of the problem-solving approach very clearly defined. I also found useful the 7 final teacher's steps regarding how to set up a new lesson based on the PBL:

define the problem together
identify project elements
identify the essential resources (knowledge, material, strategies, experience, equipment)
allocate a different resource to each participant
clearly state the goal of the task and observe them in the procedure
explain that they must identify the problem, must sort out a strategy to solve it
help students how to keep record of their decisions and discussions.

Roberta Festa - Italy

2016-09-29 17:21:14 UTC

I think the big part of the contibution is indeed a success to be achieved in a coopetation work.

Stavroula Lada, Greece

pde4424 — 2016-09-29 17:50:34 UTC

In collaboration, seeing the perspective of each part is very important.
Analysing the tasks, finding the resources, using hypothesis and leading to outcomes, all these develop critical thinking to the parts of a group.
Communication plays a role key to problem solving.
Do, say, make, write--> Evidence
Formative assessment to reform our teaching "What if..."

TITTI CERVALE ITALY

2016-09-29 18:01:01 UTC

Very True, Formative assessment focuses on what the student can do. This without any doubt will empower his/her self-confidence and will improve his/her performances

Svetlana G. (Estonia)

2016-09-29 18:20:34 UTC

I liked this video. I agree that , to improve collaborative probems, very iportant to gve students more opportunities to performance. Luckily I am working in small school. All our studence have a lot of possibilities to perform. But in big local schools it is a problem . Always possibilities to perform in school sciene have more active students (about 20%). A lot of students for many years did not participate in school life. It is horrible.

Diana, Romania

dya_constantin — 2016-09-29 18:26:29 UTC

Cooperation decisively contributes to success. Cooperation means soltig tasks more rapidly and effectively.

Roberta S., Italy

2016-09-29 19:06:31 UTC

Apart from the clear and exhaustive point-on the collaborative problem solving skills, I think the key word here is evidence:
a) Evidence to be 'produced' by students
b) Evidence needed to be recognised by the teacher
All what refers to formative assessment is a challenge for the teacher who has to 'change' his/her practice! No doubt! Now!

Antonio, italy

2016-09-29 20:06:15 UTC

A single teacher will not be able to to change approach in such a way. The national Curriculum shoud change and teacher formative sessions should be organized.

Maria Luisa,Italy

2016-09-29 20:08:35 UTC

Get the students reflect on their project, Get the students document the process, Get the students think critically and produce something other people can use.
The real aim of formative assessment is to change the teaching practice.

Mena, Italy

2016-09-29 20:35:31 UTC

A very deep and intense video. I believe the real challenge is to change the teaching practice and focus on formative assessment. In other words, a real revolution in the teaching-learning process.

Giuseppe, Italy

2016-09-29 21:08:32 UTC

I think learners' cooperative is very important developing either social skill or knowledges, or critical ideas. Students, working in group or discussing in your team, can solve commun pro

Beate Vollmer, Germany

v1b1 — 2016-09-29 21:19:17 UTC

The key principle of formative assessment is to improve students' performance by providing fresh challenges even after they have achieved something. This can boost higher reasoning and trigger progression in the learning process.

Barbara Horvatic, Croatia

2016-09-30 07:45:46 UTC

Students have to learn how to work as a team, and if they do not work together, and all of them, they will not be successful!

Elisabetta Marigo Italy The new approch to collaborative work and its difference from the group work is substantial to get us teacher change our perspective in the learning teaching process. What is more

elisabettamarigo1 — 2016-09-30 10:04:22 UTC

Sara Viotti, Italy

sara_viotti — 2016-09-30 12:00:22 UTC

Interesting, very Interesting

Sonia Ruiz, Spain

soniarugar — 2016-09-30 12:13:53 UTC

Many times group work and collaborative work are thought to be the same... Working in collaborative groups is challenging and needs planning and a good selection of techniques.

Serena, Italy

2016-09-30 13:28:12 UTC

"Change the teaching practice" is the first action that we teachers should do.

Anna Marisa, Italy

2016-09-30 13:52:36 UTC

Collaboration is the key word for learning.

Paola, Italy

paola_romoli — 2016-09-30 15:01:42 UTC

What would happen if we change our teaching practices? Let's try!

Elena, Italy

ferrarielen — 2016-09-30 15:08:02 UTC

Collaborative work is different to group work we used to do in class. Interesting reflexions on formative assessment that I'll try to remember in my future planned lessons.

Mauro,

2016-09-30 15:10:12 UTC

Problem solving relate to the question of the truth and on our idea of it. Also the question of knowledge, the need of information and knowledge has to be put in relation when we practice the problem solving methods. The quest for knowledge, the love for it inspire the way we teach, the way we work, or, would be better working.

Olimpia

franceseolimpia — 2016-09-30 15:12:47 UTC

Collaborative problem solving is a complex skill requiring both social and cognitive competencies. It was rationalised by the ATC 21S project team as a composite skill arising from the links between critical thinking, problem solving, decision making and collaboration. The term “collaborative Problem Solving” was adopted from the work of O’Neill (2014) and from counselling in the work of Green (2004). Hesse et al (2015) conceptualised collaborative problem solving as consisting of five broad strands - participation, perspective taking, social and task regulation, and knowledge building and we will return to these in detail.

Floripes, Portugal

floripes_almeida — 2016-09-30 15:27:37 UTC

In life, collaboration is the key for success and for happiness. And the same happens in education.
Collaborative Problem Solving is a very important skill across educational settings. In this case, groups of students join their efforts and work together on solving problem situations. Collaboration allows the incorporation of information from multiple perspectives and experiences and it may easily originate creativity and quality.

PBL often requires multiple students working together to achieve a team goal. That’s why effective communication among students is so important.

Simona C, Italy

simoneva_2000 — 2016-09-30 15:28:49 UTC

Thanks for the inspiring guidelines, Professor Griffin! Collaborative works are fundamental are very useful activities for our classes. Students have to learn to take the perspective of the others, be open-minded and flexible even in analysing situations, possible relationships and solutions towards the other classmates in order to get the goal all together.

Edit, Hungary

tothedit0610 — 2016-09-30 15:53:35 UTC

At last I understood the difference between group work and collaboration with the help of the video. In group work there might be "passive" members, while in a real collaborative task ALL members have to contribute to the work actively with teacher's guidance. This needs a lot of preparation and planning from the teacher, who actually becomes only an assistant during the learning process.This is the most difficult to change in our educational system: the dominant role of the teacher. Actually we have been trained to be in the centre of attention. But now with today's kids this teacher-centerness does not work, urgent changes are needed!

Lucia - Italy

2016-09-30 16:54:38 UTC

I share at all mrs Edit from Hungary reflection: it's not always so clear the difference between group work and collaboration. I think the hardest part is to demand that all the students work and collaborate.

ANTONIETTA, ITALY

2016-09-30 17:14:46 UTC

Just a very helpful definition of collaborative problem solving!

Cristina, Italy

prof_cau — 2016-09-30 17:18:48 UTC

With this video, I could understand the value of collaborative group work in which each team member provides his personal contribution to achieve the common goal. Change the front role of the teacher, the more varied assessment and change his commitment. It will be a challenge to achieve all this!

Mary, Italy

mrformichelli — 2016-09-30 17:22:28 UTC

I think sometimes it's not esay applying collaborative group work.

Alessandra M., Italy

prof_alemurgia — 2016-09-30 17:36:07 UTC

The key word here is "challenge": no progress can be made unless you start reasoning in terms of challenge. As teachers, we too have to learn the ability to "adjust" our teaching practice to improve our students' performance, as well as ours...

Oriana, Portugal

orianaborges — 2016-09-30 17:56:13 UTC

Fantastic ideas about collaborative problem solving!
The distinction between group work and collaborative work was quite clear!
The distinction between group work and collaborative work was quite clear! Collaborative problem solving implies that students communicate with each other, share ideas, establish plans, agree on solutions.

Silvia, Italy

silvia_sebastianelli — 2016-09-30 17:57:25 UTC

i was interesting to reflect on collaborative work and group work. I think we often confuse the two modalities when working with our students

Jaime Martins, Portugal

joncmartins — 2016-09-30 18:14:08 UTC

In this inspiring and interesting video some useful activities for collaborative works were shown. Also, the difference between collaborative work and group work were clarified.
Collaboration is the key word for learning, and for success.

LUIGI, ITALY

2016-09-30 18:38:18 UTC

Collaboration is the true basis of learning even if sometimes it's difficult to attain.

Ljubica Ruzhinska, R. Macedonia

rljubica_78 — 2016-09-30 18:49:35 UTC

Anne Fischer

2016-09-30 19:17:06 UTC

Again a brillant video that lays out concise and detailed information about collaborative problem solving skills.

Raffaela - Italy

raffaelasollo — 2016-09-30 19:48:31 UTC

I agree with Alessandra M. from Italy. The key word is "challenge": the only way to improve is to change our teaching practice.

Faten Romdhani, Tunisia

2016-09-30 19:49:53 UTC

The video is so inspiring and gives us clear ideas about the components and procedure of Collaborative Problem solving skills. Thank you for enlightening us.

Antonella, Italy

antonelladamato — 2016-09-30 20:15:17 UTC

Interesting and very helpful. Hard to implement. "Show me and I remember!"

Paola,Italy

psignorini60 — 2016-09-30 20:43:43 UTC

collaborative work and group work,
the need of a real change of teaching,
the crucial

Miguel Tomás, Portugal

2016-09-30 20:50:24 UTC

This approach deals also with scientific method, involving problems, hypothesis and experimentation. Maybe it will be more difficult to implement in literature or language classes or projects. There’s no doubt collaborative paradigm will rise in a near future and will require big efforts from teachers and stake holders. As see it now, I don´t feel confident to do it right away, I don’t feel prepared to that task. On the other hand, I feel I must start facing this challenge in short term. Generally in Portugal, we have discipline problems and I wonder if we can balance this approach with discipline management.

Mairi Karolina, Greece

2016-09-30 22:17:42 UTC

Very well thought out answers by the speaker...He breaks down each of his answers into parts that connect...He is kind of an example when he answers a question of how teachers should break down questions and possible answers in a PBL project!

Laura, Italy

mammolimlaura — 2016-10-01 05:41:37 UTC

CPS is a real challenge for techers, from the task assignment to the assessment. Teachers ofetn use group work when giving a task, but that' s a completely different approach, in that ALL students must contribute in the same way. Isn't Cooperatve Learning based on the same principles?
As to assessing, that's the most difficult part, because we are forced to grade students with shared rubrics and tools

Laura, Spain

2016-10-01 07:24:06 UTC

I found the video very interesting. it gives us some steps to follow which are very helpful.

Anna Rosa Buda, Italy

ar_b — 2016-10-01 09:02:58 UTC

This video is amazing! But 14 hours are not enough for me! I'm studying day and night!

Vittoria S., Italia

2016-10-01 09:25:03 UTC

While listening to the video I had in mind some pictures of group work where there were students who didn't participate and some images of students who discussed one to another and came to conclusions because they really communicated.

Catarina Rodrigues, Portugal

canrodrigues — 2016-10-01 09:55:23 UTC

As many other teachers I must practice a lot to gain confidence to do something like this with my students. The video is an inspiring one and the paper help us to understand the approach. Asssessing students' performance is the main problem.

Manuela Correia, Portugal

2016-10-01 11:27:10 UTC

Such a clear explanation of what collaborative PBL is.
I agree it's really challenging to put it into practice in a thirty-10-year-old-pupil classroom. Now imagine this... What if they also had recorders on their hands?
BBelieve me it's loud!!! But it's really worth the risk! ;)

Kristina Kaučić, Croatia

2016-10-01 12:01:28 UTC

It is sometimes difficult to organize groups well. The video is inspiring. The most challenging for me would be good assessment of students performance.

Isabelle, France

2016-10-01 13:07:37 UTC

As I am sciences teacher, problem solving skills are part of our way to teach but the most important here is "collaborative" . Indeed, we practice work group but not what is clearly explained here collaborative work. I think we should improve the formative path to assess the contribution of each member. It is probably one of the main difficulty because students are not at the same level of thinking, they don't use the different tools . The diversity is a challenge in the collaborative problem solving teaching.

Rita S, Italy

2016-10-01 13:44:34 UTC

I really use the Cooperative Learning in my classes, because I'm specializing in doing that by following different courses.

Laura M., Italy

2016-10-01 14:15:42 UTC

Collaborative problem-solving sounds like a big challenge in mixed-ability classes where silent "lurkers" often hide behind the more motivated students.

Maria Filippa - Italy

2016-10-01 15:04:08 UTC

The assumption here is that collaboration is essential because the task is too complex for a person to work through it alone. It may be that different people possess different information; different expertise and experience that they can bring to the problem space in order to jointly share the knowledge, experience and strategies in order to jointly solve a particular problem.

Lucrezia Di Molfetta, Italy

edimol — 2016-10-01 15:37:00 UTC

Everything in our environment requires us to make use of social skills and to collaborate with others and therefore it is important to educate students to work side by side to solve a problem together.

Rossella, Italia

RossellaR — 2016-10-01 16:02:29 UTC

I understand the importance of the use of collaborative problem solving that seems to be the ideal teaching tool, but, in Italian schools do not think we are ready to approach this methodology.A challenge for school and for teachers

Lucia, Italy

2016-10-01 16:44:18 UTC

very interesting video!I will experiment the way of asking students "what if...or how would the problem,,,,," for the oral test . In this way you let students think about what they have learnt and don't let them learn by heart

Margarida Almeida, Portugal

2016-10-01 16:53:56 UTC

Patrick Griffin explains very well the formative assessment and the challenge to change the teaching practice.

Basilio, Italy

2016-10-01 16:59:01 UTC

I agree with Rossella, it is very difficult in the Italian schools to apply this model, also because of the resistance of some colleagues or principals to innovate, to come into play by innovate oneself and studying. But this difficult is only apparent, because however you can gradually introduce methods to improve and develope collaborative problem solving skills within a project based learning environment and then show the results by showing your real and concrete product. You work in your classroom – or outside the school, non in a abstract system. I think that the first step is the communication with and to the students; we have to make them aware of what they have to do, in a “we-perspective”, and for me “we” means the teacher and the students, not the teacher and the system, the burocracy, and so on. I am experimenting this in a project based learning in a class, using an “external model”: a simulation of an editorial staff to “solve” the “problem” of creating a tv journaistic report during 4 minutes to send to a national contest, about a topic (the culture of anti-mafia and the legality). Building a product to participate to a contest could represent, in fact, the problem to solve. So I am copying roles, tecnhnique, ways of working and thinking and writing, organization and so on, from that model of working, to aply it in my context. If you insert in the project different kinds of product (a journalistic report, an event with a meeting with an important person, an interview, a slogan and so on), you have the task for the groups and a variegate skills you can develope.

Roxana, Italy

2016-10-01 17:04:35 UTC

A very interesting video. We have to work a lot to change our teaching method.

Maria Papadaki, Crete, Greece

2016-10-01 17:20:45 UTC

The reason that it's difficult for teachers in a school collaborate (including me) is that we were students in a system that promoted pursuit of individuality and competitiveness instead of cooperation and collaboration. Now that I realize that, I try to do whatever I can to have my students collaborate, even in small tasks like that of completing gaps in a student's book exercise!

Fernanda Cunha, Portugal

fernandasilvacunha1 — 2016-10-01 17:36:02 UTC

Very enlightening video.
In fact the ways of learning and ways of teaching need to change as well as the assessment strategies. As far as I’m concerned, formative assessment is a big challenge.
Very important acronym KSAVE: knowledge, skills, attitudes, values and ethics.
To retain: one must not confuse work group with collaborative work.

Armanda Italy

armanda_orietta — 2016-10-01 17:54:16 UTC

Collaborative problem solving is essential to build professionalism. Students will learn new strategies for their future job.

Maria Panou/ Kalymnos, Greece

maria_themelis — 2016-10-01 18:23:19 UTC

My favourite main points of video are :
1. Competence encompasses the quality and transferability of that action over time and context. No one performs a skill at the same level every time. No one operates at their maximum all the time. We adjust our performance according to the demands at the time. Competence therefore can be regarded as the ability of the person to adjust the skill performance to the demands of the context.
2.\Ways of thinking were conceptualised to include creativity and innovation, critical
thinking, problem-solving, and learning to learn and the development of metacognition. Ways of working was conceptualised to include communication, collaboration and teamwork; Tools for working involved information and ICT literacy; Living in the world involved changing emphases on local and global citizenship, aspects of life and career development, and personal and social responsibility. These were all grouped under the acronym KSAVE: knowledge, skills, attitudes, values and ethics.
3. the beginning of UNESCO's 21st century competence learning discourse -with learning to know, learning to do, learning to be, and learning to live together -forming the four pillars of learning. These four pillars are more complex than appears and shift the discussion somewhat to a philosophical level.
4. Learning to live together is the pillar UNESCO emphasizes more than any other. It refers to developing an understanding of others as well as highlighting the reality that if we are to understand others, we must first know ourselves. Learning to be is founded on the undamental principle that education needs to contribute to the all-round development of each individual. This pillar deals with what it is to be human, comprehended by intellectual, moral, cultural and physical dimensions.
5. Each of the approaches to understanding of 21st century skills and how they fit with
our notions of education and the function it serves, emphasises skills that diverge
from modern traditional notions of academic disciplines. They all actually identify
enabling skills - skills that we need to navigate our global society. They converge on
a common set of 21st century competences - collaboration, communication, ICT literacy, and social and/or cultural competencies; and most include creativity, critical thinking, productivity, and problem-solving.

Shukufa Najafova

2016-10-01 18:34:35 UTC

Ismailli, Azerbaijan
I watch this video and must say that like it. Also I read the comment of my colleages and agree with them.

Marisa Rocha, PT

2016-10-01 19:29:37 UTC

Very elucidating! I agree that teachers need to understand the role of formative assessment and all the steps that this type of approach imply. It's not easy to change the way we've been doing things for such a long time... teachers need to change, directors need to change, parents need to change... the way students look at school also needs to change! It will take a really long time before education gets to the point where it should be... I'm sure I'll be retired by then! ;)

Martha Karvounidou, Greece

2016-10-01 19:39:18 UTC

Very important informations. I liked the video.

Raffaella Tedeschi, Italy

2016-10-01 20:27:57 UTC

This video provides some useful notions such as common understanding, social regulation, resource management. I found really enlightening the challenge set by asking students: what if?

Giada, Italy

giadabevilacqua — 2016-10-01 22:44:51 UTC

Very interesting video!

Rossella E. - Italy

rossella_esposito — 2016-10-02 07:20:41 UTC

I agree with all I heard in the video. Collaborative work is essential in the actual world of work. It's important that students develop cognitive skills, but it's also important that they develop social skills: participating, perspective-taking, collaborating. I think that they can develop their cognitive skills in a better way by confronting with peers.
Very interesting I found the part about formative assessment: I agrre that it means that teachers need to change teaching practise, know the problem, understand the progression and development of thinking and challenge students to think more about going to the next level.

Tonina C. Italy

2016-10-02 07:35:52 UTC

In my school we are trying to work a lot on cooperative learning.
Last year in our classrooms with the help of a writer of childrens's books, have created a writing workshop where students, in groups of four, invented some story about ouotline provided by the writer.

Evangelia Kontopidi, Greece

2016-10-02 08:02:51 UTC

A very interesting video and great ideas and suggestions given by professor Patrick Griffin. 4Cs in collaborative problem solving process: collaboration, critical thinking, communication, contribution.

Fernanda, Portugal

fm_mc — 2016-10-02 08:13:25 UTC

Communication is the big problem on collaborative problem solving.
Formative assessments change teaching practice .
Do challenging students and reinforce their knowledge
Teachers need to be able to recognize evidences produced by the students
What happen if... is the key, not right or wrong.

Gianni Stival, Italy

2016-10-02 08:51:08 UTC

The most challenging aspect for me is the assessment, unless it is not only formative.

Sabrina, Italy

gsabibou — 2016-10-02 08:55:16 UTC

Collaborative work is so important, as students learn to learn and to communicate with others. They learn to develop a deep empathy.

Rossana, Italy

rossana_demartino — 2016-10-02 09:27:55 UTC

Nowadays social skills are very important and the school has to work to develop. Collaborating, partecipating and critical thinking are the aspects the students have to recognize through cooperative learning.

Gülhanım Dursun,Turkey

gul_ektem — 2016-10-02 09:48:20 UTC

Collobrative work is important. I think give one more than skill to kids

Crina, Romania

clapou_crina — 2016-10-02 10:14:03 UTC

I think empathy is of great importance in collaboration.

Ilaria, Italy

2016-10-02 10:22:35 UTC

Listening about collaborative problem solving I remind of the scientific experimental method, I studied with my students last year at the primary school (9 aged students)

Ionela, Romania

kameeliah16bis — 2016-10-02 11:54:21 UTC

Teaching collaboration is challenging, but has great rewards. We have great inspiration from this video.

Giovannella, Italy

giovanna_gurrieri — 2016-10-02 12:03:04 UTC

It is great to imagine and to provide a learning environment where is possible for pupils testing themselves as able to take on a funny challenge in solving problems seen not as unpleasant things but as exciting tools of self-empowerment

Ellen, Netherlands

2016-10-02 12:50:49 UTC

I think it is very important that children learn to collaborate in tasks. Because it is a skill they will need in their later life. Learning from different perspectives will be more and more important. Just as critical thinking skills. Children need to take and learn how to take responsibility for their learning proces. So they will develop a life long learning attitude.

Key parts of a problem solving task:
- what is the problem
- what are the resources children can use.
- Which technlogy can be used.
- What other perspectives can be checked out.

What if we change …. Take children to a higher level of thinking.
Challenge children to evaluate and think further of their result.

Andrea Checchetti

dreache — 2016-10-02 14:07:03 UTC

Probably comunication is the great difference between collaborative problem solving and individual problem solving. The students must develop competences in saying, in listening, and in doing

Sara, Italy

2016-10-02 14:41:48 UTC

Thank you for the suggestions!!! It is so true, teachers have to change their teaching practice.....that's why we are here!!!

Giovanna Succio, Italy

2016-10-02 15:11:15 UTC

Get the students reflect on the process. This is a very important thing to remember

Mariana, Spain

mariana_morales — 2016-10-02 15:28:11 UTC

It's very interesting and important for teachers to know the difference between GROUP work and COLLABORATIVE work. That way we will be able to recognize if the team is developing the work in a correct way.

Tetiana,Ukraine

2016-10-02 15:52:30 UTC

Collaborative work helps
develop the learners´ social skills, the ability to cooperate together, because they often work in groups on their project, and their sense of responsibility for their work.

Ida B.

2016-10-02 16:09:18 UTC

Teacher training and recruitment should change accordingly... not all but many teachers just pour down onto students dates and figures, the same they can read on their textbooks or on the internet. Bringing thinking and reasoning to the next level is a much more complex task.

Silvia B, Italy

silviabrazzoni — 2016-10-02 16:14:47 UTC

I think that problem solving

should be the key with which you lead all learning experiences, both disciplinary and interdisciplinary. The teacher has the role of mediator, conductor, facilitator and to reflect with guiding questions their students

Isabella Cassandra Italy

isacassandra — 2016-10-02 16:36:27 UTC

Key words: contribution and collaboration

Elena , Italy

2016-10-02 16:42:14 UTC

Change the way of teaching, try to help students think higher, that's the
real challange!!!!

Rosa Catapano

catapano — 2016-10-02 17:00:42 UTC

Problem solving is an exciting and useful strategy to solve a lot of students' problems , expecially shy pupils.

Iciar, Spain

2016-10-02 17:03:07 UTC

When I have tried PBL in my lessons I did not consider the difference between group work and collaborative work. I really liked the explanation of a provided evidence which includes the possibility for other people to see, hear , read and use it . I´m looking forward to see how to develop a real formative assessment in the next video.

Rita B.,Italy

rita_bellodi — 2016-10-02 17:20:36 UTC

Very challenging for a teacher and absolutely formative for students!

Jordi Seriols, Vila-real

2016-10-02 17:22:55 UTC

I've carried out some PBL projects and it works quite well. But the problem is, again, the 19th century curricula we are obliged to follow. How can we implement high order skills in our classrooms if the Government curricula are still concept-based.

Annamaria, Italy

2016-10-02 19:09:28 UTC

I'll try to work in my daily teacher practice with the 4c
collaboration
critical thinking
communicatin
contribution

antonio

2016-10-02 19:42:23 UTC

i agree that to contribbute to problem solving and collaborative tasks are very important in every day life and work

Manana Jakeli, Georgia

mmmjakeli — 2016-10-02 19:45:39 UTC

I agree that problem solving and collaboration is very important skills.

Foteini Massou, Cyprus

fotinimassou — 2016-10-02 19:46:25 UTC

Very helpful and clear explanation distinguishing group work and collaborative based learning.

Clara Elizabeth Báez - Reggio Calabria- Italy

2016-10-02 20:34:48 UTC

Is important to students to work together and to understand what are they doing, how they will work , why and in which way they will be evaluated (assessment). Useful it will be to theirselves to keeping records of their discussions and decisions.

Ana Nojkovska

spasovska_ana — 2016-10-02 20:54:34 UTC

Problem solving tasks are very important part of education. This video is quite helpful, I will try out some of the ideas.

Željka, Croatia

Zeljka — 2016-10-02 20:56:20 UTC

Very demanding, but certainly a motivating approach. The role of the teacher is to provide the conditions that everyone can contribute to solving the problem, which sometimes is not easy, since we work with heterogeneous groups.

Bernardete, Portugal

berdajo — 2016-10-02 20:58:11 UTC

As I say before, pupils are not used to think for themselves, so this approach is very challenging. I hope educacional system will change : nowadays the most important are tests and grades!! It is important to implement PBL into curriculum.

Elisabetta, Italy

elisabetta_siboni — 2016-10-02 21:56:16 UTC

I think that collaborative learning is important and central in education to favor critical thinking and life-long competences. I use this approach with all my students with ICT, in particular web tools.

Annalbina, Italy

2016-10-02 22:22:23 UTC

Interesting interview with a lot of good advice for a collaborative teaching. Hints about the formative assessment are very interesting, too.

Monica Italy

2016-10-03 09:29:12 UTC

the problem in our schools is that we are not able to make it clear to students how much can be rewarding broaden their skills, be able to...., and relies entirely on the sense of duty, which in reality has little to do with learning

Xana Sá Pinto Portugal

2016-10-03 10:34:18 UTC

I loved the video. I particularly loved to think about how could students document their processes more extensively. This allows us for better formative and summative assessment. I really look forward to learn more about this next week!!!

Chiara, Italy

2016-10-03 11:52:01 UTC

I agree that the problem solving is an essential skill. I did not know the difference between group work and collaborative work.

viki doga, greece

2016-10-03 13:07:59 UTC

with project based ideas

Cláudia Rolo, Portugal

claudiarolo12 — 2016-10-03 13:17:05 UTC

It is pertinent that education combining theory with practice, contributing to the training of students so that they (re) buildtheir knowledge allowing the resolution of their everyday problems.In PBL method, the evaluation is more different from other methods Traditional. Thus, we intend to evaluate each student as part of an group, in terms of content learning, development processes scientific reasoning and critical thinking, and also in individual collaboration in group problem solving.

Claudia Massaregli, Italy

claudia_massaregli — 2016-10-03 13:43:51 UTC

It is very important to introduce problem solging tasks! to engage children i learning.

Grazia Del Tito, Italy

2016-10-03 14:22:04 UTC

I found very interesting the focus on the nature of collaborative problem solving tasks. Very useful to learn about the concrete steps that, as teachers, we need to take in order to set-up collaborative problem solving tasks.

Crizia, Italy

crizia_calonego — 2016-10-03 15:44:22 UTC

I agree that in a group work everybody has the opportunity to participate developing social skills and critical thinking

Bartolomeo Corbo - Italy

bartolomeo_corbo — 2016-10-03 15:52:30 UTC

Developing collaborative problem solving skills is the most important challenge for our pupils, but also for many adults. In Italian school so far the competition has been encouraged and our students are often brilliant, but they can not work together. The complexity of the world today demands that all should work together to solve complex problems. No one can do it alone.

Alina, Romania

saftaalina — 2016-10-03 16:15:25 UTC

It is important to cooperate, colaborate in solving problems.

Serena G, Italy

serena_gem — 2016-10-03 17:14:23 UTC

I think that the cooperation and the collaborative problem solving skills are important for social and emotional intelligence involving, too. Nowadays the great problem for the school and the society is the relationship. So if the teachers work for collaboration and co-operation and together problem solving, I'm sure the learning will be more usefull and the society will be better.

Rocco, ROMA

2016-10-03 17:40:12 UTC

You must partecipate, you must contribute

Maria A., Greece

2016-10-03 18:34:28 UTC

Collaboration is not only a key competence but a value as well.

Elisa

mec972 — 2016-10-03 18:49:28 UTC

collaboration is basic in cooperative work, that's the key to a successful project

Rossana, Italy I think that collaborative problem solving could be not only a school skill or a work related skill but something more deep in our mind and culture and shouldstart at home. It should be part of our daily life, a way of thinking, doing and living...

rossaco — 2016-10-03 19:31:57 UTC

Sara Viotti,Italy

sara_viotti — 2016-10-03 20:41:13 UTC

Collaboration is possible if we flip our lessons and our students are used to take risks in their learning together. If they feel the teacher always doesn't like their solutions, they never won't be more than passive. Failure is in fact a part of success...

Maria Concetta Catalano, Italy

cettinacatalano644 — 2016-10-03 21:11:40 UTC

Collaborate and engage are essential for project-based teaching

Rosalia Urso - Italy

liaurso — 2016-10-03 22:04:28 UTC

“….. Competence therefore can be regarded as the ability of the person to adjust the skill performance to the demands…..”

Very clear definition of competence, I like it and we teachers should always work keeping in mind it.

Inga, Latvia

elksne_inga — 2016-10-04 06:06:33 UTC

The lecturer's comments on formative assessment were really useful for me. I had never thought of this from such a perspective. We, teachers, need to challenge our students to help them improve their performance - a great idea!

Simona Costaggini, Italy

2016-10-04 06:17:24 UTC

When teaching, I can see that the students' involvement and cooperation is fundamental to reach even the simple goal of answering a set of questions on a given topic. that is why I totally agree with and share professor Griffin's suggestions. but I wonder, how can group assessment or students' self-assessment od competences be objective? do we need objectivity in this respect?

I share Simona Costaggini's view and questions. I find it difficult to implement self or peer assessment and it seems rather a never-ending process because of this lack of objectivity.

2016-10-04 10:04:54 UTC

Dana, Bucharest

2016-10-04 13:39:36 UTC

Excellent saying about formative assessment - we do it for improving our teaching.

Carla Senis, Italy

carla_senis — 2016-10-04 15:41:18 UTC

A useful video about formative assessment, group work and collaborative based learning

Pietra, Italy

pietra_sellaro — 2016-10-04 16:58:57 UTC

Collaboration and solving skills are important in a learning process. In this video we can know hoe to develop this competences

Sarmite Popena Latvia

2016-10-04 17:23:21 UTC

The problem is one of the most important skills. Pupils will be taught to solve problems and to assess the situation.

Adelaide Jordão, Portugal

2016-10-04 20:07:10 UTC

This interview is interesting and disturbing at the same time: I still have much to learn about collaborative work ...

An exciting challenge that I am willing to accept.

Federica

2016-10-05 07:31:50 UTC

Lúcia Ferreira, Portugal

luciamealhada — 2016-10-06 01:19:25 UTC

This video helps us to implement strategies that lead students to develop knowledge and learning based on PBL from the resolution of specific problems. Collaborative learning can be very effective as shown in the video.

Luisa Infante, Italy

2016-10-06 06:39:36 UTC

A basic point is that in a collaborative work-group each member has a role: he/she MUST give his/her CONTRIBUTION. But it's absolutely not easy to organize that. The risk is that there's always "one" that doesn't do enough work.

Maria C. Italy

2016-10-06 07:48:19 UTC

An interesting interview! It helps to improve new strategies. Thanks!

Angela P.,Italy

2016-10-06 08:01:05 UTC

Designing a PBL is not easy just because it presupposes to predict the development of many skilfulness, knowledge and skills in 'pupil. Leaves little room for improvisation by the teacher as well as a decisive role in the formative evaluation. Increasingly eager to learn this new method!

Luisa, Italy

luisads30 — 2016-10-06 17:49:21 UTC

Balance is the keyword. Strongly agree with that.

Andrea, Italy

andrearaccagni8 — 2016-10-06 19:34:37 UTC

Very inspiring. The real problem is to put theory into practice planning activities that bring the students to a higher level of thinking and consequently, as a teacher, have the competence to assess the implemented work.

Sarah Mallia, Malta

sarahborg85 — 2016-10-06 20:03:29 UTC

Communication and pooling in resources are the keywords to develop Learners' collaborative problem solving skills

calcedonio, Italy

calcedonio79 — 2016-10-06 20:28:09 UTC

A very interesting interview that sums up all the important patterns of new learning strategies.

Giacomo, Italy

2016-10-06 20:29:00 UTC

collaboration
critical thinking
communicatin
contribution
I think that IBS, PBL, group work, collaborative work, cooperative learning are all on the same live motive.
The important is, for me, "learning by doing together".

Lena Rossiou, Greece

rossiou — 2016-10-06 20:33:20 UTC

The video contains a set of well defined issues, a lot of resources and easy strategy to set up a collaborative problem solving.
The whole video is inspiring and catch interest up to the end

Anna Maria Tomaselli, Italia

2016-10-07 14:05:12 UTC

I agree that Key Competences are very important to help students to learn for life and we, as teachers, have to implement this new approach to teaching and learning. I really am looking forward to know more about Project Maths in Ireland.

Patrizia Ceccarini, Italy.

2016-10-07 15:28:59 UTC

Working in group means self-discipline. In my experience, It's not easy to teach respect of the rules, during this kind of work

Monica Morana

moimorana — 2016-10-07 16:05:09 UTC

Collaborative skills are basilar for learning by doing together as well as developing relationship and communication competence

Gianluca, Italy

Gianluca_Marano — 2016-10-07 16:22:15 UTC

Instagram: Gianliukk https://tackk.com/7un9cu
The key to having all the skills is the ability to collaborate and solve problems by working in a team

Priscilla, Italy

2016-10-07 17:01:47 UTC

It’s interesting to note how transversal competences are important. Practical suggestions are precious too, making teacher able to improve their skills. Professor Griffin was really clear and his presentation really useful.

Concetta, Italy

2016-10-07 18:08:35 UTC

Very interesting indeed! However, as a language teacher I think that I can organize this kind of activities only to students who have reached a very good linguistic competence, otherwise they wouldn't have the means to give their contributions.

Roberta, Italy

r_signorino — 2016-10-07 18:35:23 UTC

Developing students' collaborative and problem-solving skills is paramount in a complex. 'liquid', and multicultural society such as today's. It is a challenge we must take up as teacher, if we want our student to be competent citizens.

Gülşen Korucu,Turkey

gulsenkorucu — 2016-10-07 22:45:53 UTC

First of all, we encourage them to take part group works and establish their own group to feel resilient .If they conceive the responsibility of being a member of a group,they can begin solving problems collaboratively.

Marie-Hélène, France

2016-10-08 09:14:47 UTC

I understand that collaborative problem solving is really important for my students, but I find it difficult to join PBL and curriculum. Always afraid not to have finished what we have to do during the year...

Emilia Alexe, Romania

Emilia_T22 — 2016-10-08 10:52:57 UTC

I enjoyed the way Professor Griffin explained about collaboration.The problem is time , in my opinion and the heavy curricula.Teachers are stressed to cover all the topics and we don't have time to let our students reflect, and take action, do some projects .I understand now what PBL works.Communication , contribution, collaboration, exploration are very important ingredients in a team work.It's not easy at all to make all the members of a group work together especially when they are in primary and lower secondary school.

Sandra. Barcelona

2016-10-08 12:42:00 UTC

Collaborative work or the way classroom is organizate it's very important to PBL. Solving problems it's easier in group that alone so children need to learn how to live happy in society, Interactuing with other with social skills. Contribute in society it's a must have for any person. How we can help?
Cognitive skills are important too, but not with regular, individualized tasks.
CHALLENGE YOUR STUDENTS!
Next video is and amazing experience started a few years ago in Catalonia. A massive change in a few schools arround Barcelona called Jesuites (sorry because is in spanish language)

Carmen Carella, Marche, Italy

2016-10-08 13:59:08 UTC

I found the assumptions of the problem-solving approach very clearly defined. I also found useful the 7 final teacher's steps regarding how to set up a new lesson based on the PBL:

define the problem together

identify project elements

identify the essential resources (knowledge, material, strategies, experience, equipment)

allocate a different resource to each participant

clearly state the goal of the task and observe them in the procedure

explain that they must identify the problem, must sort out a strategy to solve it

help students how to keep record of their decisions and discussions.

Rossella, Italy

battafaranorossella — 2016-10-08 15:16:34 UTC

Italian classrooms are not a right environment to start a PBL. Many schools have not technological instruments to realize this kind of pro

Manuel Garcia Naples, Italy

2016-10-08 15:25:44 UTC

I agree with the statements that were made in the video in that Project Based Learning encourages students to think critically and collaborate among one another in order to achieve a certain goal or outcome. I think that no matter what environment or course one is teaching or engaged in, there is room to implement some degree of a PBL approach as this will put the students in charge of their own learning process.

Maria Joao Horta, Portugal

mariajoaohorta — 2016-10-08 15:34:45 UTC

I consider the question of evaluation as the most complex factor in PBL.

Raffaella Cardone, Italy

2016-10-08 16:33:26 UTC

enlightening intervention! together we must change.

Biagiio,Italy

2016-10-08 16:49:07 UTC

Watching thi video it was useful to clarify my ideas about this problem,

Lucia Letizia - Italy

2lucia_letizia — 2016-10-08 17:27:58 UTC

I think the Collaborative problem solving is so interesting and useful for training people able to face the challenges, however difficult to put into practice. This does not mean that it is not necessary to try in a competent and decisive.

Silvia - Ital

silvia_gualdi — 2016-10-08 17:56:48 UTC

The first key competence for 21 century: ENGLISH :)
Jokes aside, very interesting. I want highlight the sentence: "the real role of formative assessment is to change the teaching practice". I'm here to change my teaching practice and this is the place.

Maddalena Autiero, Italy

2016-10-08 20:02:32 UTC

I'm excited about the project-based learning! is very exciting although time-consumingto design ideas that arouse the interest of students and widen their horizons of wider responsibilities and contextualize the knowledge of mathematics and physics in casesof practical use, or technical-scientific challenge that makes them fly imagination and ambition

Andrea, Hungary

laszlo_karas — 2016-10-08 20:10:00 UTC

Key message for me is that collaborative teaching with collaborative problem solving based on teachers' intense observation of students, and related group dynamics, requires interactions challenges individual students face-to-face to reach higher level of thinking.

Rob, Italy

2016-10-08 20:27:59 UTC

Thanks to Professor Griffin I realized, listening to his interview about how to develop learners'collaborative problem solving skills, t I have absolutely to revise and update the way I assess my students: no evaluating assessment any more, but only formative assessment !!

Ispir Iuliana-Florentina, Romania

ispiriuliana — 2016-10-09 07:26:31 UTC

Anna, Italy

materdona — 2016-10-09 11:33:47 UTC

Enlightening video!!! Learners' collaboration and formative assessment are the new pathway I have to follow

Ekaterine Naroushvili.georgia

pedagogi_eka_history — 2016-10-09 11:53:57 UTC

We, teachers have to change Our teaching practice.
Problem solving and collaboration is very important skills.

Giovanna, Italy

2016-10-09 12:44:53 UTC

Many ideas, very important to improve our teaching.

Daniela, Italy

2016-10-09 17:02:14 UTC

How true it is what Professor Griffin says about repetitive teaching and learning and its usefulness!THE BIG ROLE IS CONTRIBUTE!

Cinzia Marrone, Italy

stella130307 — 2016-10-09 20:07:17 UTC

It's useful to improve the way of teaching

Natividade Santos

2016-10-09 21:56:38 UTC

Problem solving is essential and we need to change our teaching methods

Giorgio Figura -Rosolini Italy

2016-10-11 19:44:39 UTC

I understand that the solution of the problems of cooperation is very important for my students, but I find it hard to join PBL because they lack the equipment and suitable premises and many colleagues have struggled and always concerned to carry out the program often repetitively with programmed rhythms and always the same.

Giovanna Dotato, Italy

2016-10-11 19:47:33 UTC

This video is very interesting. Student collaboration and formative assessment are the new path that can improve the way we teach

Maria Antonietta, Italy

mariaantoniettamurrocu67 — 2016-10-15 21:29:21 UTC

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In scaffolding student learning in collaborative problem solving We, at least in part, have to change our teaching practice:
The challenge is in fact to identify students’ emerging skills and provide the right support at the right time at the right level.
The assessment practices have to adjust and move from summative information towards formative assessment.
analysis of information and the formulation of hypotheses that they jointly set out to test.
technology-based teaching/learning.
With technology there is a range of ways in which the students can collaborate. This can be across different countries, classrooms and it does not matter if there physically separated by times, location, page, opportunity or subject knowledge. What is required is that the students can simultaneously access the tasks and interact with one another via the Internet to explore potential procedures and strategies that would help them solve a complex problem.

George, Romania

2016-10-17 11:55:49 UTC

Very useful information from Professor Patrick Griffin.
The collaboration , the rules, are very important in resolving problems.
Sad that the time it's a problem. Everything that I watch here is very very helpful.

Giusy, Italy

2016-10-26 21:54:18 UTC

In my opinion collaboration is essential because the task is too complex for a person alone. Different people hold different informations and experiences so they can share knowledges and strategies in order to solve a particular problem.

Adriana, Romania

lefteradriana — 2016-11-30 18:59:44 UTC