Collaboration


 * 1) What is collaboration? ﻿Collaboration is working together to achieve a common goal. When collaborating, all members of a group contribute work and idea.
 * 2) What are 3 ways in which students collaborate in your classroom and are they successful?
 * 3) ﻿Student Discussion: students will discuss readings/images/maps/etc for meaning and ask/answer questions
 * 4) Act It Out: students plan and stage a skit to demonstate an event in history
 * 5) Model UN: students work together as a whole to discuss a global issue, in pairs to research country positions, and again as a group to debate and write resolutions.
 * 6) All of these collaborations are effective. However, student discussion often needs to be teacher led or driven while students take more ownership of act it outs and model un. This is probably because they are more interactive.


 * 1) How can expanded use of technology help develop depth and breadth for our students? The more technology students are exposed to and learn, the easier it will be to continue to learn and master new technology. One of the reasons young people are so comfortable with the constant change in technology is that they are constantly using technology and can apply a skill set from one to the next.
 * 2) What is the difference between cooperation and collaboration? Cooperation is like an assembly line, the job one person does won't necessarily make the next person's job better or worse, and could be done by one person with the right time and resources. Collaboration is bringing together a group with different skills, depth and mastery that can build and grow and learn off of one another.
 * 3) What are the challenges in getting students to collaborate rather than just cooperating? I think students often look at group work as cooperation. Each student takes on a job or role, completes it and adds it to the end result. Often, some students will do more as others do less. The students that do less do it because they know someone else in the group with pick up the slack. Those that do more do it because the grade is more important to them than the collaboration.

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