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ICT and Cooperative Learning : Reinventing the Classroom

This paper presents a case study on the impact of the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) as a tool, and cooperative learning (CL) as a pedagogical approach to the delivery of curricular content. The two–month study was implemented during the second grading period in the two sophomore classes at UP High School in Cebu. These classes served as the control group and experimental group, respectively. Both classes used ICT resources in most of the learning activities of the course. The main difference was in the pedagogical approaches employed to facilitate learning. The control group used individual and group–based learning activities while the experimental group used the Teams–Games–Tournaments (TGT) cooperative learning method (CLM). For purposes of this study, the control group was labeled as NCLM group and the experimental group as the CLM group. The main objective of this study was to show that the use of ICT in the classroom should be coupled with sound pedagogical approaches in order to maximize the positive effects of technology integration in the learning process. A pre–test and a post–test were given to the students to determine their academic performance before and after the study.