When you say the students, we're going to have a group project, there's a preponderance of times when the people will groan. It turns out, if you teach people how to work while in groups, they don't hate em so much. And i think one of the things everybody should do is put your students into into groups of four or five and ask them to talk for five to ten minutes about the best group they've ever been in. So try it out if your if you're listening, give it a read and see if i did that."
Todd Zakrajsek shares about the 3rd edition of The New Science of Learning on episode 422 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Let people struggle a little bit.
-Todd Zakrajsek
If you don’t teach students how to do well in groups, they don’t tend to get better at it.
-Todd Zakrajsek