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Technology Collaborative Tools in The Digital World

This document discusses using collaborative technology tools to engage digital learners. It identifies Skype, wikis, blogs, Google forms, and web conferencing as tools that allow students to work together online. Examples of activities include having students continue class discussions online and collaboratively completing tasks using wiki pages or Google documents. The document also provides guidance on using blogs for educational purposes and conducting a survey to understand how millennials prefer to learn. Students are asked to reflect on how to prepare for and engage digital learners in their future teaching.

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Technology Collaborative Tools in The Digital World

This document discusses using collaborative technology tools to engage digital learners. It identifies Skype, wikis, blogs, Google forms, and web conferencing as tools that allow students to work together online. Examples of activities include having students continue class discussions online and collaboratively completing tasks using wiki pages or Google documents. The document also provides guidance on using blogs for educational purposes and conducting a survey to understand how millennials prefer to learn. Students are asked to reflect on how to prepare for and engage digital learners in their future teaching.

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Technology Collaborative Tools in the Digital World

Lesson Outcomes:

1. Identified and explored collaborative tools or applications that can be integrated in instruction.
2. Built a platform or an online account that can be used for a collaborative work.

Introduction

The learners of this generation are a new kind of breed and it is important that teachers understand how to deal with
them. They seem to thrive in collaborative learning. They like to connect to the social networking sites. Creating and
producing something are what they prefer to do rather than become consumers of information inside the classroom.
They like to be mobile either physically or virtually as they traverse from point to point or site to site. Apparently they
seem to be investing a huge amount of their time in a digital social environment although they can be more self-
educated in choosing what they want to learn, how they want to learn.

Explorer
Technology as a Collaborative Tool

One way to engage students is to give them a challenge and a chance to work together. An example is when you give
them an issue to discuss which they can continue talking about even if they are outside of the class. Students may
continue the discussion and share information or come up with an agreement by texting, emailing, chatting, or using the
online document. Once they have agreed, they can move to the next step of presenting their agreements or resolutions
to the whole class.

There are a lot of available tools and application that can be used to work collaboratively with others. Some of these are
Skype, wikis, blog, google form, webconferencing, Realtimeboard, among others. You need to explore each application
to be familiar with the feature.

1. Skype is a software application allowing you to do a videoconferencing for free. All you need is to create an account
and can be used for a video meeting.

2. Wiki is a software that allows you to create a page or a selection of pages designed to allow you to post or write, edit
or upload a link quickly. This is good when students need to work together to complete a task even if they are not
physically together.

3. Blogging In blogging. It is journaling your ideas to which others can react allowing a thread off discussion to take place
and which can be used online. It is the abbreviation of weblog. It would help if you provide direction when using a
weblog.

a. use weblog with a clear instructional objective. It is an opportunity to explore the skill of communicating ideas.

b. guidance on what and how to post will be needed. Teach the students that the blogging is for educational purposes
and is different from personal blog.

c. easy access to information, a major obligation is to teach the students to use multiple source and to cite them
appropriately.

d. writing about personal act but it is important that you are taught to make blogs personal without revealing too much
of personal information such as contact information and too personal pictures.
e. it may help if you can look for very good examples of blogs. There are online and print publications that review blogs
and you can use the information to guide you toward getting good models.

4. Google Group or Google form is an application that can be used in a collaborative documentation of ideas contributed
by members of the team. Having a google account will come very handy and you can easily have access to a variety of
applications.

Activity no.1
Gather data from millennials by asking 10 persons on how they want to learn and craft a simple questionnaire.
 Conduct a survey in a manner that suits your preference.
 Interview your resource person
 Let them answer the following:
How do you want to learn?
 By reading the textbook
 By surfing the internet
 By taking down notes
 By listening to the teacher
 Others (please specify):

Present the data gathered using a word cloud by showing the visual representation or the picture. You may use the
online word cloud generator (e.g. tagxedo, wordle, etc) or you may draw it manually If you do not have access to an
internet.

Activity no.2
Reflection

1. What have you realized after getting information about how the millenials learns better?

2. As a pre-service teacher, what actions will you take as you prepare yourself to handle these types of learners?

3. How will you handle your lessons in order that you will make learners become more engaged and effectively take
accountability of their own learning?

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