Collaboration


 * 1) What is collaboration? I think collaboration is working and communicating with others to achieve a common goal.
 * 2) What are 3 ways in which students collaborate in your classroom and are they successful?
 * Think-Pair-Share: They start out on their own, but they collaborate to come up with an answer/statement (whatever the assignment is) that the entire group agrees on. I have had some success with this.
 * Jigsaw: Students become "experts" on certain aspects of a topic, and rely on other students expertise on the other aspects of the topic to get the entire picture. I have had mixed results with this.
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 * 1) How can expanded use of technology help develop depth and breadth for our students? A student can only learn so much by reading a text book, or asking their teachers questions. Technology opens them up to unlimited resources, which could allow them to develop a wealth of knowledge. This would expand the depth of our students. Technology also gives our students access to information on anything they could possibly think of. A teacher could be talking about a certain topic, and students can do assignments on that topic while bringing in new aspects they would not be able to if technology wasn't available. By opening so many new doors, technology can get students interested in many different things, expanding their breadth.
 * 2) What is the difference between cooperation and collaboration? Cooperation is when individuals work independently on different smaller tasks, which are then merged into a final product. Collaboration is when individuals work together to amplify each other, each bringing their own depth and breadth of knowledge, to achieve a common goal or to produce a final product.
 * 3) What are the challenges in getting students to collaborate rather than just cooperating? I find that students are either lazy and want everyone else to do the work for them, or they are too competitive and don't want to give any work/ideas that they did/came up with to other students. When I do give group assignments students generally divy up the assignment, and each person does their own section and they bring everything together and turn it in, much like the assembly line example given in the video. Most students have a hard time trusting others with their grade, so are unwilling to rely on others to get their job done.