Blog Response 2- 8/27

#2.  Group work can either be very helpful and productive or a huge waste of time and the assignment would have been better if it was completed individually. When it fails it is usually because there is a lot of poor communication within the members of the group and no work is accomplished and like Roskelly said, there is chaos. Roskelly also said that, "When a person doesn't know why she's doing something, doing it seems relatively useless". Also there may be one person who takes charge of the whole group and "thinks he knows it all" or there are many people in a group who all want to lead. This causes the group to fall apart and the members are not able to work well together. Trust in groups is also a huge factor, the members sometimes do not know if the other people in the group will be able to do the work and do it well. 

Although, groups do not always fail. They sometimes help people a great deal. If all work was done alone, there would be a lot less learning in the world. People learn and work well by talking about their perspectives and their beliefs and listening to others, therefor people learn more and the world can grow and change. In Roskelly's story, she states that, "Talking presumes at least one listener or commenter. Group work, then, because it encourages engagement-talk and reflection and response-mirrors the way people learn things inside and outside the classroom, the ways in which they make sense out of the world".