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Figure 2. The Group learning place.
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Personal Research and Reflection
Carla is a shy girl who does not participate much in face-to-face class discussions. She is afraid that
her ideas are not very good and she hesitates to share them until she has had time to think about
them and to compare them with other ideas or to check them out by collecting more information.
So when she sees an interesting idea in the group learning place, she often copies it into her
personal perspective and works on it there, where no one else will see it. During the week, her
personal area fills with the results of new web searches, documents she has collected or edited,
notes that she has copied from the group area, and ideas she has jotted down in her own knowledge
building area. When she is happy with one of her ideas, she copies it and some related documents
into the group area to see what her team mates will say about it.
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