Tell us what you think collaboration is and how you could use the digital tools to support collaboration in your teaching.
Collaboration is learning through interaction. Collaboration in a class looks like and sounds like a mess but it is through that mess where learning occurs. It is very student centered and the teacher is only really there as an assistance of the students learning. Students aren't just working as individuals but as a collective and through learning, they are also building relationally with the others within their classroom.
Collaborative Learning also changes the structure of a traditional lesson and classroom setting because the students are not tied to their desk but have the freedom to roam to wherever they best feel comfortable completing that given task.
Using blogging sites such as this one, collaborative learning with other students can be taken outside of the classroom so that learning is not restricted to a classroom or a time frame. You could set up a blog for students to collaborate over the weekend and use class time doing something else or continuing on from what was done. Blogs are so easy to use and so accessible as well. Even for students going on school trips or out of the city, they can still feel apart of the learning.
