Recipes for Fruitful Collaborative Learning

Recipes for Fruitful Collaborative

Learning

Helena

Silvana

Kirsi

Jean-Paul

Eddie

Mark

Authors & Contents

This recipe book was created as a collaborative learning resource by the authors while participating in the Online Network Learning Course 2021.

Isabel

Oksana

Patrik

Book club over a Swedish Fika

As a Swede, I feel it is my duty to bring the Swedish fika to the table. The fika is the moment of the day when we all gather with a cup of coffee and a cake (or something similar), whether it is with colleagues, acquaintances, friends or family.

In most workplaces, the coffee break is a must that you can’t say no to. For a short while, colleagues gather around a table with a coffee. Here, an important part of the interaction takes place in the workplace, a chance for exchanges of ideas, spontaneous problem-solving or just small talk where you get to know the person behind the job title. Informal or not - some say that the best idéas comes from a fika.

Helena

Ingredients for the book club

1. Discussion leader
2. Summarizer
3. Questioner
4. Word collector
5. Designer
6. Interrogator
7. Weaver

Method

1. The discussion leader distributes the word evenly throughtout the entire session.

2. The summarizer begins with summarizing the text.

3. The questioner brings difficulties and ambiguities from the text, and ensures common understanding.

4. The word collector gather key terms from the text.

5. The designer illustrates the text or shapes it in another way, and lets the others interpret the connection to the text.

6. The interrogator ask critical questions and problematize.

7. The weaver sees intertextual connections between what is read and other relevant contexts (for example, between course topics or between theory and practice).

Before the session you distribute the ingredients, one ingredient for each participant, as far as it lasts. Each participant is responsible for preparing their part before the book club meets. At the next meeting, the participants exchange ingredients.

Silvana

My favorite plate from my childhood in Spain was an outside cooked mixed paella. Paella was originally farm laborers' food, cooked by the workers over a wood fire. It was made with rice, plus whatever was to hand around the rice fields and countryside. Paella however would be a different dish without the Romans who brought the pan and the Arab because of rice and saffron.

Today there are many varieties of paella, the typical ones are seafood paella and mixed paella which combines meat from livestock, seafood, vegetables, and sometimes beans, with the traditional rice. Often a giant paella is the centerpiece for many fiestas.

Mixed group paella

Ingredients:

- Different personalities
- Typical roles in a group
- Various learning methods and strategies

Method:

1. Form a group an think about you usual role in it - are you Facilitator (often the leader of the group), Initiators (contribute ideas and suggestions for resolving problems), Arbitrator, Notetaker, Coach, Coordinator, Evaluator or a Compromiser. Or a mix of some of these.

2. Choose a role you would usually not take and try working in a group in this role - if you usually tend to lead, take a step back and try the role of an arbitrator. If you usually have millions of ideas try to concentrate on evaluating the ideas of others. Etc.

3. After the group session discuss how did your new role feel like, what was hard and what did you learn

MARKNADSKONFEKT

Some of my dearest childhood memories are going to fairs with my parents. The mix of people at the different market stalls and of course the homemade sweets "Marknadskonfekt". In Sweden these sweets are also made during Christmas. If I was lucky, they had set up a carousel at the fair...

Kirsi