Can cooperations help students to study effectively?

India
February 22, 2010 11:25am CST
If students come together and form a group, that shares studying technique with each other for any particular subject or lesson or any personal problem and how they tackle with those subject then it can help the students who are really bad in those subjects. It can change the scenario of students facing problems. And the best place to do this internet. what you think?
3 responses
@uniqueorn (1011)
• Philippines
23 Feb 10
Practically speaking, a group work will not be effective if you cannot put discipline first before anything else. I say this because the tendency of coming together with your classmates will produce nothing but some leisure time of talking and other things not related to your main purpose of gathering. As I have noticed in most of the group works I have had in, the rate we can finish the work is lesser and weaker than doing the task individually. Though on the other side of it, you can learn some things from your group members. It may not directly relate to the subject of your work.
@megamatt (14292)
• United States
23 Feb 10
For some students, it can help a lot. Others, not so much. I am the type of the student that it would not really help. I am a lot more productive when I study on my own and independently. I am sure that many other students are like this as well. Plus when students get together a lot of the time, it tends to devolve into social hour. Not their fault, just when you get a group of people together, a lot of times their is a lack of focus at the task at hand. I do think that this may work for some students however. If a group of students can get together and use their strengths to help the others, all of them can learn something from each other. Each of them can come across as a lot better and do better in their studies, if the group can really focus on their studies.
• India
22 Feb 10
ya i think students can study well and study soon if they study in a group . each one may a particular thing well and hence we can easily study from them . when ever we have some doubts we could get it cleared . we would study in groups at some times and i find that i study quickly when i am in a group rather than when i am studying on my own . i think we can do studying in internet also . but i dont think thats the best place for a group study . we can study well when we all meet together and study in a particular place .