Principles of collaboration in the classroom

Principles of collaboration in the classroom

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What is collaboration?

What it ISN’T: • • •

It isn’t parallel work It isn’t just communicating with each other It isn’t adding final products

What it IS: • • •

It is working together, with coordination, in teams It is communicating with each other with an operative goal It is making final products in which aportations from different participants get blended

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What does collaborating imply?

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Negociating

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Renouncing to some of our own ideas

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Commitment

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Depending on and adapting to others

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Time

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On ocassions, using a foreign language

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But… •

We get better, richer results.

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It increases the awareness on our own learning and decision taking proccesses.

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Learning inputs are multiplied.

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We interact with others, we get to know, we get to be known

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It’s fun!

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What problems do we find?

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We are social beings, but we have to learn how to collaborate.

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Individual solutions appear inmediately, directly.

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Inconvenients of collaborative work are easily perceived.

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Advantages of collaborative work must be experienced to be appreciated.

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What happens when we…

- are selfish? we aim at our own benefit

- are lazy? we try to reach our goals with as little effort as possible

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How can we make sure that our students collaborate?

1. Monitoring the whole proccess: •

We might interfere too much, even being intimidating

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We might make students restrict their initiatives

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We can never be sure that we are really monitoring everything

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How can we make sure that our students collaborate?

2. Designing activities in which collaboration is the • most efficient, • most intuitive, • and easiest

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How should these activities be?

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Expected final products must force communication, interaction and information exchange among participants.

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They must be built on mutual necessity.

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They must use the variety of skills and knowledge in the group.

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The classroom shouldn’t be seen as a real physical limit: the classroom is in the net.

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A continuous and final evaluation must be planned, so it assesses both individual and team work.

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Some real examples 1. A frustrated project • •

Science students of 2nd year of “Bachillerato” (previous year to university, 17 years old) Students of vocational training, Personal image and hairdressing (+16 years old)

Can we have a common project for both groups?

• What toxic products are wasted every day? In which quantity?

• How much is wasted in a month in your town?

• What consequences could uncontrolled wasting have?

• How can we manage waste in an efficient, safe way?

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Some real examples 2. A real project • •

Vocational training students: Management studies (+18 years old) (Nuria de Salvador, IES “Eduard Fontseré”) Students of Primary education, 3rd stage (10-11 years old) (Cristina Grau, CEIP “Ramón Macip – Dolors Granés”)

What project did they do?

• Primary students designed jewellery.

• VT students created a ficticious company to sell the jewellery, including market studies.

• Results of the studies were sent to the Primary school as a feedback for new designs.

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How many schools are needed to make jelly?

How To Make Jelly (http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-make-jelly) Jelly Recipe. A basic guide to making one of the world's most famous and well-loved children's desserts. Serve with ice cream for that complete experience. Sample our Jelly recipe.

1. Step 1: You will need • • • • • • • • •

90 g packet of flavoured jelly 90 g packet of a different flavoured jelly 500 ml hot water 500 ml cold water 1 flat tray 4 glass serving bowls 1 whisk 1 ladle 1 large bowl

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Serves: 4

2. Step 2: Make the jelly Pour the first packet of jelly powder into a large bowl and while whisking, add the hot water. Whisk until the powder has dissolved. Slowly add half of the cold water and whisk once more. Repeat exactly the same process with the second packet of jelly.

3. Step 3: Transfer the jelly Generously ladle the jelly syrups into separate glass bowls.

4. Step 4: Chill Place the jelly in the fridge and chill for 2-4 hours, or according to the instructions on the packet.

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Some online collaboration tools

Skype Chat, videoconference and file transfer. Sessions can be recorded. No need to show users’ emails.

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Some online collaboration tools Google Docs It allows coediting texts either in real time or asynchrononously. It includes a chat.

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Some online collaboration tools Voicethread Comment presentations with audio or video.

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Some online collaboration tools Dipity Timelines made collaboratively.

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Some online collaboration tools And, of course... the TwinSpace Safe, multilingual, with support from CSS and NSSs. It includes file archives, image galleries, blogs, wiki, forums.

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Some tutorials on the TwinSpace

http://www.etwinning.net/en/pub/help/twinspace_guidelines.htm (CSS) http://www.etwinning.es/curso_en (Spanish NSS, in English)

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