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35: Cooperation and the Use of Technology
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35.1 Technology in the Classroom
35.2 The Individual Assumption
35.3 The Nature of Cooperative Learning
35.4 Theoretical foundations of cooperative learning
35.5 Research on Social Interdependence
35.6 What is and is not a cooperative group
35.7 Applying the basics of cooperation
35.8 The cooperative school
35.9 Cooperative learning and technology-based instruction
35.10 Ten questions about technology-assisted cooperative learning
35.11 The future of technology-assisted cooperative learning
35.12 Summary
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