Meta-Collaboration: Thinking with another

Bliss, Jennifer

Desautlets, L. (2015). Edutopia. Meta-collaboration: Thinking with another. Retrieved from: http://www.edutopia.org/blog/meta-collaboration-thinking-with-another-lori-desautels

This article focuses on changing the way we approach student learning by working with students and teachers to become co-teachers. The idea to get students to think and share about they way their brains work, they process and evaluation information, and how they problem solve. By becoming a co-teacher (a student will be the other teacher) students will gain the perspectives of others and think hopefully adopt some of the strategies and ideas shared with their classmates.

Although the article is small, and I am not sure how you would use the students as co-teachers, it is an interesting way to approach a new subject. If students can begin to think in steps about how they problem solve and process information, they can approach any learning subject with a new understanding.