Group Work Doesn’t Have To Be Annoying and Pointless « Annie Murphy Paul

Originally published at: http://eduk8.me/2016/06/group-work-doesnt-annoying-pointless-annie-murphy-paul/
“Quite true; students are novices. Particularly true in lower grades (K-8) where group work and student-centered, inquiry-based classes have become more common over the years. [Because students are novices], the comparison of ‘group work’ to the collaboration that supposedly is going on in the working world and which they will need to do is flawed.…