Thursday, November 8, 2007

Zone of Proximal Development - Collaboration

Collaboration with a more capable peer does not guarantee that the joint meaning will be at a higher level, and the higher level peer could actually regress.

Misinformation from a peer can be disorienting.

Simply pairing students with more capable peers is not enough to ensure that increased learning is ocurring

Regression can be a moment of reorganization of thoughts a moment just before a revolutionary point of understanding.

Teachers can provide sufficient feed back to avoid more than temporary regression and aide understanding.

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