1. The document discusses using collaborative tools like Skype, wikis, blogs, and Google Forms/Groups to engage digital native students who thrive on collaboration.
2. These tools allow students to work together virtually through videoconferencing, shared document editing, discussion threads, and collecting shared ideas.
3. When using blogs or wikis, teachers should provide clear objectives, guidance on appropriate content, and teach responsible sourcing of information.
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Technology Collaborative Tools
1. The document discusses using collaborative tools like Skype, wikis, blogs, and Google Forms/Groups to engage digital native students who thrive on collaboration.
2. These tools allow students to work together virtually through videoconferencing, shared document editing, discussion threads, and collecting shared ideas.
3. When using blogs or wikis, teachers should provide clear objectives, guidance on appropriate content, and teach responsible sourcing of information.
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Lesson 9
Technology Collaborative Tools in the Digital World
Lesson Objectives
At the end of the lesson, the students should have:
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-directed in choosing what they want to learn, how they want to learn and when they want to learn. Think-Pair-Share Technology as a Collaborative Tool
• One way to engage students is to give them a
challenge and a chance to work together. • Students may continue the discussion and share information or come up with an agreement by texting, emailing, chatting, or using the online document. 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. 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. • Work can be extended virtually and asynchronously. Blogging
• it is journaling your ideas to which
others can react allowing a thread of 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. It would help for if you provide direction when using a weblog.
a. Use weblog with a clear
instructional objective. b. Guidance on what and how to post will be needed. c. With easy access to information, a major obligation is to teach the students to use multiple source and to cite them appropriately. d. Writing about your ideas as a 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 if you can look for very good examples of blogs. Google Group or Google Form
• is an application that can be used in a collaborative documentation of ideas contributed by members of the team.