Brief an eassy on the purpose and features of group discussion
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The purpose of a group discussion is not to win an argument or to amuse your classmates. The purpose of a discussion is to help each group member explore and discover personal meanings of a text through interaction with other people. Much of our everyday talk is made up of descriptions in which we seek in one way or another to convey ideas to other people. These ideas are usually concerned with what we know. A learning group discussion is far more tentative, even halting, in its progress, for it deals not with certainty but with search. Listening to a group discussion, one is likely to hear such expressions as “it seems to me”, “I think, “I believe”. Group discussion should not seek to convince; rather, it should deal with matters unresolved and seek to help each member find meanings that did not exist before. (Adapted from A.W. Combs, The Professional Education of Teachers.)
DISCUSSION SEQUENCE
Fruitful discussions do not just happen. They are the product of concerned cooperative effort on the part of all participants. Moreover, discussions that result in learning have very specific characteristics. In order to make our discussions as profitable as possible in this course, we will begin with a rather carefully structured set of ground rules. Following these rules may be a bit difficult at first, but give yourself a chance to get your bearings with them. Later in the course, if we choose, we can modify them.
In any learning discussion, communication is the essential issue, and the type of communication in use at any particular moment depends on the nature of understanding of each participant with regard to the topic at hand. Sometimes everyone understands a particular topic, in which case it need not be discussed. Sometimes nobody understands, in which case the group should consult the instructor or the text or else move on if it is not a topic of particular importance or interest. More commonly, some understand a particular issue and others do not. When this is the situation, those who think they understand may find, while trying to explain, that they don’t understand as well as they thought they did. And by the same token, those who thought they didn’t understand may find, in the process of formulating their question and attempting to pinpoint their difficulty (that is, thinking out loud), that they can answer their own question. Note that the element in these exchanges is expressing what you don’t understand. Positive roles in a group help individuals express what they don’t understand. The negative roles mentioned below interfere with this communication process.
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OK guys so as you all know that my exam is over.. so as I had promised you all we are going to restart our discussion from tomorrow.... OK then choose a topic for tomorrow... :
1. Mercury
2. Uranus
3. Black hole....
choose one and let me know....