Evolution has pretty much proved that human beings are social beings. "With a few notable exceptions (eg. Baumeister & Leary 1995) somewhat less attention has been paid to the power of social motives such as the need to be accepted by, connected with, and of value to other persons and social groups." I think everybody, or almost everybody, feels the need to ve wanted and accepted by socity, or by a social group.
In my college writing and soft skills classes we sometimes worked in groups of two to four on a project. Our grdes depended on the abilities and being able to work together on a project or an essay. This helps to get a person out of themselves and into working with others. It was quite interesting putting everyones ideas together and it was also fun.
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I think doing classroom projects in groups is as amazing idea. I have always gotten more work done and i understand what the goal is better when there are more people to explain it to me. One specific group project that i can think of is when me and two other students had to build a bridge out of tooth picks and marshmallows. the bridge had to hold up at least five golf balls without falling apart. my idea was the basic bridge with no fancy stuff but one of the group members said to put everything is a triangle shape since triangles don't bend and our bridge design was the best. i guess what im tryin to say is that my bridge would of fell apart right away but because i was in a group we fed off of each others ideas and it had an amazing outcome.
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