Week One

Working in Groups for Studio Project One.

Cognitive psychology has shown the benefits of group interaction in learning, specifically those benefits in dyads (groups of two students). Because of varying abilities in the students of teams, but also the necessity of at least two people in project development, teams of two work to engage learners and teachers who learn.

The student with more knowledge and skill in the study topic, practices his or her articulation of knowledge through demonstrations to the student with less knowledge, and in turn learns through formulation and synthesis. The student with less knowledge then learns through being provided stimulation on the topic, and being provided answers to questions triggered by the project or learning task.

What is at work here is the role of discussion and social engagement in formulation, thinking and learning to think, that facilitates learning. For Studio Project One, you will work in teams of two to create a web site that visually and interactively and hyper-textually tells a story.

You will each create a design diagram (Studio Sub Project One) on your own (each student) and then decide which of yours to use for the site, or how to combine the stories through subplots.(team work on the site only--except for revisions to the diagram with which you proceed). Research will resume on the visuals for the site, and the production of graphics for the site once you choose from each student's design for site architecture.

The pattern: Preparation for working in groups: Each student sketches out a story in a design diagram.

Preliminary Group Activity: Groups of two students discuss which story they would like to make into a site or how to combine stories. (Feel free to combine stories as subplots of the main stories).

Main Group activity: Student's put together a site, each responsible for graphics and web authoring and research.

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Week One