Collaborative learning : 1-Resource Partitioning Guild which plant participate in the same guild 2-Mutual Support Guild – In Edible Forest Gardens 3- Diverse plant species in prairie grasslands support a long-term (where plant depend on each other to grow) 4-Colonies of social insects self-organize and carry out complex group tasks 5-collaboration in Honeybees in a colony select a new hive location via quorum. 6- Cooperative herding behavior by the American white pelican catches more food by concentrating prey. 7- The Caesaria tree helps maintain diversity and prevent extinctions in its forest ecosystem because it produces fruit to sustain several animal species through times of scarcity. 8-The relationship between the sea anemone and clown fish allows the other to flourish through symbiosis 9- Social networking behaviors in hermit crabs help them find new homes through vacancy chains. 10-collaboration between the ants to know the shortest road

1. Collaborative learning
What could be possible ways for us as educators to
promote collaboration further?
1- make an opportunity for discussion (make their own
community).
2- prepare students to be part of a team(make their norms).
3- create learning activities that are complex.
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2. Collaborative learning
Examples of collaboration in nature with different shapes like
1-Resource Partitioning Guild which plant participate in the same guild
2-Mutual Support Guild – In Edible Forest Gardens
3- Diverse plant species in prairie grasslands support a long-term (where plant depend on each
other to grow)
4-Colonies of social insects self-organize and carry out complex group tasks
5-collaboration in Honeybees in a colony select a new hive location via quorum.
6- Cooperative herding behavior by the American white pelican catches more food by
concentrating prey.
7- The Caesaria tree helps maintain diversity and prevent extinctions in its forest ecosystem
because it produces fruit to sustain several animal species through times of scarcity.
8-The relationship between the sea anemone and clown fish allows the other to flourish through
symbiosis
9- Social networking behaviors in hermit crabs help them find new homes through vacancy
chains.
10-collaboration between the ants to know the shortest road

3. Collaborative learning
Types of collaboration
1- from one member to another.
2-from one member to group.
3-from group to one member.
4- from group to group .
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4. Collaborative learning
Examples of school collaboration
1- when science department in school announce for scientific competition
all the team prepare for it and work over
to finish it in the time
2- when two teachers tend to collaborate together they should be a plan
and this plan is
requires all of their knowledge so
they must collaborate to do what is been asked .

5. Collaborative learning
How do you feel about collaboration now? Why?
I think that collaboration is very useful to student and
to families
What could be possible ways for us as educators to
promote collaboration further?
help student to engage more by design activities to be
as life situation to help them to develop collaboration
skill .
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6. Collaborative learning
What are the skills you need in order to collaborate with
others?
1-Team building and playing
2-To mange brainstorm
3- Communications skills such as listen very good , give and
receive feedback
4- Present your skills, experiences, creativities to others
5- Give and receive the feelings, concerns, opinions.
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7. Collaborative learning
How can Teachers develop collaboration skills among Learners?
1-discussion is very important between team members.
2-respect roles.
3-eye contact.
4-make a comparison between two groups during an activity one of
them cooperate to finish the task and the others work individually to
finish the same task .
5-By practicing teamwork , cooperation in presentation ,
communication and body language skills through learning activities
which are designed for the topic.
6-sharing responsibility between them in finishing projects , Design
activities that could develop the collaboration skills

8. Collaborative learning
What are the benefits of Collaboration skills for parents and Family life?
1-sense of responsibility
2-save time & energy
3-increasing healthy relationships between family.
4-Help student to be an active member in his family and in his community
5- help student to develop a good personality
6- improve work environment a lot .
7- collaboration help in Solving problems and examining the big picture
8-Increasing efficiency
9-Increasing motivation & wok engagement
10 - work will be more easier and done in shorter time so employers will have
more efforts and time for thinking , creating and solving complex problems
11-work will be like a game / sport

9. Collaborative learning
How do you feel about collaboration now? Why?
1-collaboration is an effective tool in learning process ,
it enhances the quality of learning by giving a deep
understanding and practice to students
2- I can in brief said that collaborative is the successful
way to teach the students they can help each other
easily than just listen to us .
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10. Collaborative learning
What could be possible ways for us as educators to promote collaboration further?
1-Talk with students about collaboration , what they need to collaborate well.
2-teach them the skill needed , practice with them ,encourage students in collaborative learning .
3- make an opportunity for discussion (make their own community).
4- prepare students to be part of a team(make their norms).
5- create collaborative learning activities .4 - helping them to sharing responsibility and taking
decisions together.
6- help student to engage more by design activities to be as life situation to help them to develop
collaboration life skill .
7- It is very important and essential for educating , learning , family and work in future .
8- It saves time and efforts so it gives chances for developing skills, thinking , creating and
solving complex problems .
9-By practicing collaboration and cooperation among educators such as PLC“Professional
learning community” 10-designing project for learning which needs teamwork .

11. Collaborative learning
collaboration skills :
team building , communication skills , give and receive
feeling and intrapersonal inelegance moreover
collaboration strategies :
such as brain storm , gallery walk and team work
projects,
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12. Collaborative learning
Collaboration in general helps us to achieve complex
tasks with high efficiency in a short time , less efforts
and less costs then we applied collaboration in learning
activities by discussing , reflecting and posting replied
comments through Moodle and mind maps we
collaborated in a team work for writing a reflecting
discussion forum activity
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13. Collaborative learning
and finally as Gardener quote “it’s important to
avoid labeling students as one type of learner” We
can actually provide software, resources that present
material to a learner in a way in which the learner
will find interesting and will be able to use her
intelligences productively in collaboration way to
extent and interact with other learners actually be
able to show his or her understanding in a
comfortable way.
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14. Collaborative learning
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References
http://www.ndcollaborative.com/blueprints/
https://asknature.org/strategy/quorum-determines-new-hive-site/
https://asknature.org/strategy/cooperative-herding-catches-more-food/
https://asknature.org/strategy/fruiting-tree-holds-key-role-in-
forest/#.WyDut3WFP0E

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