arguing to learn

      When students collaborate in argumentation in the classroom, they are arguing to learn.The argumantation contains so many benefits for students. For example,  the argumentation involves elaboration, reasoning, and reflection and these activities have been shown to contribute to deeper conceptual learning. The participating in argumentation helps students learn about argumentative structures. Because productive argumentation is a form of collaboration, it can help develop social awareness and collaborative ability more generally. Also groups of people often share a common tradition of argumentation, and effective participation in these groups requires knowing how to argue competently within them. With collaborative reasonin, it helps students develop argument schema, abstract knowledge structures that represent extended stretches of argumentative discourse.  

        Piaget argued that learners should be allowed to discover as much as possible on their own, and that each decision that the teacher makes for them deprives them of a potentially more powerful learning experience. So waiting the answer from the teacher don’t improve the knowledge. Searching the answer is important for increase the knowledge.

 

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