This document discusses collaboration in teaching and learning. It defines collaboration as going beyond cooperation to involve social and networked learning where knowledge is shared and belongs to the group rather than individuals. Web 2.0 tools now allow students to interact and learn in new ways through social networking and sharing ideas. The future of education will focus on collaboration using tools like Google Apps to jointly create and edit documents online in real-time from any location. Schools need to teach, model, and create a culture of collaboration to reflect the skills needed in post-secondary education and careers.

1. Teaching and Learning CollaborativelyGroup 4-Sara Bates

2. How do we define collaboration?Collaboration 1.0Partner reading, playing nicely together,telephone calls, AOL and MSNCollaboration is not just cooperationCollaboration 2.0Learning is SOCIAL and learning is EVERYWHERENot my knowledge or your knowledge, but OUR knowledgeNetworking-relationships, ideas, knowledge

3. Collaboration is….

4. The Future of Teaching and Learning with CollaborationWeb 2.0 allows us to interact in ways we haven’t been able to interact in beforeDiscover new relationship, ideas, and subjectsSocial networking-allows students to “learn more about specific subjects, to test out ideas and theories, to learn facts, and to gauge each other’s opinions” (http://mindshift.kqed.org/2011/02/three-trends-that-define-the-future-of-teaching-and-learning/)Focus on what we gain as a result of our collaborations

5. 21 Things That Will Be Obsolete by 20201.Desks4. Homework6. Differentiated Instruction7. Fear of Wikipedia12. Centralized Institutions15. Paid/Outsourced Professional Development16. Current curricular norms 17. Parent-teacher conference nightFrom http://mindshift.kqed.org/2011/03/21-things-that-will-be-obsolete-by-2020/

6. Collaboration keeps businesses aliveCollaboration, Innovation, Education“Collaboration encourages the transcending of traditional boundaries used to atomise and separate teams, departments, business units and organisations; it interconnects artificial separations in business, encouraging sharing, creativity, empowerment and innovation.”--Giles Hutchins, global director for sustainability solutions at AtosFrom http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/blog/biomimicry-business-transformation-collaboration

7. Collaboration in our schoolsCollaboration as a skillMust be taught, must be modeledReflect post secondary plans and include real world examplesCollaboration as a cultural normCreating a collaboration conducive environmentCollaboration on a variety of levelsStart small, think bigRelationships and networkingCollaborative experiences

8. Google Appshttp://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/edu/collaboration.htmlUsing Google Docs for Classroom Instruction, blog by Philip Greenspun of MITGoogle Apps Lesson Plans

9. Google AppsGoogle DocsGroups can edit documents together, commenting to one anotherEasy to embed PrivacyWorks with any operating systemDocument, Presentation, Form, Drawing, TableUses in K-12 education? Uses in higher ed? Uses in business world?

10. Google AppsGoogle SitesTeam managed web sitesUse as e-portfoliosEasy way to create and manage web pages in the education environment

11. Google AppsGoogle GroupsSet mailing lists, share documents, web pages and calendarsEach group has a common e-mail address for sharing/editing purposes

12. More on collaborationhttp://del.icio.us/kmorrow/collaboration?&page=2http://www.edutopia.org/collaboration-agehttp://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/Collaborative+Tools