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 This chapter talks about grouping. There are two specific types of groups.The Heterogeneous groups refer to the groups of students with mixed ability.  In this group you will find a mixture of high-achieving students and low-achieving students.  This type of group is beneficial because it allows low-achieving students to be influenced by high-achieving students.  Also, it is beneficial to high-achieving students because they are able to communicate and explain their ideas. Another type of grouping is  homogeneous.  Homogeneous groups are students grouped by similarities.  In most cases, homogeneous groups are separated by ability.  This is better for high-ability groups because they are able to form ideas, and kind of bounce off of each other, and allows for more educational competition. 

Vygotsky says, no learning happens individually. He claims that learning is always influenced socially and by the cultural aspects of the environment. We always learn based on our surroundings such as people like our teachers, parents, and especially other students. All of these people help us learn. He would enjoy the  likes of the heterogeneous groups because the lower level students can learn from the higher level students.

Vygotsky believes that development occurs through a persons whole life. Learning is a social process throughout the development of student whereas Piaget believes that development are certain points in a student's life that only occur through biological development. According to Piaget, development cannot occur throughout one's life but only occurs at certain points of a person's biological development. Piaget’s stages throughout life shows us the steps a person takes in their lives. 

While writing this blog there was a lot of influencing me about what I write in this blog. I was writing this blog while the presidential debate was going on. So while I was watching that I wasn’t fully concentrating on what I was writing. It kinda made me what to rush through this blog so I can have full attention on the debate. The textbook was influencing me as well. It gave me information that I may have forgotten of just skipped over be accident while reading. 

If students get influenced by the environment around them. How can a teacher and school overpower the things a student learns from home. Say a student lives in a corrupt family and learns things at home that isn’t right. How can a school change his actions when they will always be under a corrupt family till they move out of the house.