Associate Level Material

Appendix E

Collaboration Worksheet

Write a 100- to 150-word response to each of the following questions:

• What are the advantages of having diversity in a collaborative learning environment?

I like being about to talk to different people all over the world and hearing their experience. I think that is really helpful in the learning world because I don’t feel like I’m talking to made up people, its actually real life and real problems and real success. It also makes it a challenge to have a conversation because when you write something and someone writes back you feel compelled to do the same and it actually makes you think about the question and it’s not just home work anymore. Its meeting new people and bettering yourself as a person and bettering your communication skills.

• How might factors such as diversity, attitude, learning, and work styles affect collaboration?

Well I think that work style affects collaboration more than any of the others, because some people work better by just doing the work and not having to collaborate with other people. I had to get use to speaking with the other students. I have noticed that some of the other students are old and feel that they have to be in the parent roll and I sometimes have to bit my tongue because I don’t live with my parents I don’t want someone being bossy like my mother while I’m trying to learn. The diversity , I think it helps because it introduces us to people all over the world with different lives and it give an insight to the a bigger picture.

• How does personal responsibility influence the work and success of a group?

If you don’t do your part in a group activity then there won’t be any success. If you don’t do your job than people think that you don’t have any responsibility. It also makes people think of you in a bad way because you make their jobs harder when you don’t do your part. If you don’t use your responsibilities in a good way then it always comes out negative and people think badly of you or you get fired. Group work means everyone has to do something that why it’s a group. If you are given a part you should do that part so that you help influence the work and make everyone else in the group want to do their part too.