Learning is enhanced when it is more like a team effort than a solo race. Good learning, like good work, is collaborative and social, not competitive and isolated. Working with others often increases involvement in learning. Sharing one'own ideas and responding to others'reactions improves thinking and deepens understanding.
Most jobs today are team oriented.
In these situations you don'often get to choose who you will be working with. You will need to cooperate despite personal differences, prejudices, etc. You are a part of a Group. You will sit together, consult with each other, make decisions together, plan and prepare your photo project together, solve problems together, share all aspects of the course with each other. Each individual within a group will perform a function.