Asbjela Sulejmani

  W e can't say that technology has never been used before in the classroom or during lesson planning, but, since the online school replaced the real-life one, teachers and students have been getting themselves more and more familiar with all the possibilities and tools technology has to offer. Starting from, of course, digital devices, and moving on to programs and apps that serve for a specific purpose or just make everything easier and more interactive.  Starting from the most helpful and obvious technology tool, search engines such as Google, Bing or Yahoo, which provide numerous helpful apps, such as translators, docs, books, forms, sheets, and so on; then moving on to video platforms such as YouTube or Dailymotion, then moving on to general or specific apps and websites. The shift to remote learning had many teachers scrambling to find effective ways to share lessons, deliver instruction, and allow students to collaborate. Here are some of our favourite tools, divid...

  Can you guess from the name what Cooperative Learning is about?  In this approach, also named as Collaborative Learning, students work on a task in groups and often are rewarded either partially or completely for the success of the group as a whole. Aspects of cooperative learning have been part of education for a long time; some form of cooperation has always been necessary to participate on teams.  he more active a lesson, the more students tend to engage intellectually and emotionally in the learning activities.  The use of cooperative learning groups in instruction is based on the principle of constructivism, with particular attention to the contribution that social interaction can make.   In essence, constructivism rests on the idea that individuals learn through building their own knowledge, connecting new ideas and experiences to existing knowledge and experiences to form new or enhanced understanding.  The core element of cooperative learning...