Collaboration: Impact on the Changing Educational Landscape

Dr Baldev SinghImagine Education

• How can technology support collaboration?• What 21st century skills are needed for effective

collaboration?• What are some of the challenges and

opportunities for educators?

Outline

Bin IT

Technologies + Teaching + Learning

Input process output

Creativity, group work, time managementCommunications skills, reflection

“Well done but lots of room for improvement...”

ICT in Education: The report so far..

• 1.5 million pieces of content are shared on social media…daily.

• 120,000 blogs created daily

• 2 blogs created per second

• Generation Y and Z consider e-mail passé…In 2009 Boston College stopped distributing e-mail addresses to incoming freshmen

ICT in the 21st century...

Drivers for collaboration

Web 2.0 + Demographics

Digital natives

Web 2.0

Population World Map

2006This is the year when one of the greatest collaborative projects of our time was completed....

Multiple countries involvedSupported through technology

The mapping of the human genome

Collaboration is a recursive process where two or more people or

organizations work together to achieve a common goal

Defining Collaboration

Can we afford not to be ready?

Technology might be the answer, but what was the question?

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Educational transformation process

Students who studied in groups, even only once a week, were more engaged in their studies, were better prepared for class, and learned significantly more than students who worked on their own (Light 2001)

What does research tell us about the value of collaborative learning?

It is about a change in the teacher-student relationship

"Our exams have to reflect daily life in the classroom and daily life in the classroom has to reflect life in society” Minister of education

New opportunities

ACTIVITY: Tell a story in 6 words

College and Career Readiness

Think creatively Interact effectively with others

Reason effectively Produce results

Make decisions Adapt to change

Solve problems Manage goals and time

Communicate clearly Use and manage information

Collaborate with others Be flexible

Analyse media Work creatively with others

People Collaborating: Tell a Story

Learners Collaborating: Hole in the Wall Project

Self organized collaborative learning through technology

"I love solving Maths problems. I find that very interesting. I have learnt it from my sister Raj. I have taught my friend Shilpa.“

Chanchal (Girl, 12)

Educators Collaborating: Partners In Learning Network

The emerging tools that can

support collaboration

“My goal in life is to find ways in which

children can use technology as a

constructive medium to do things that

they could not do before; to do things

at a level of complexity that was not

previously accessible to children”

Prof. Seymour Papert 1998

The Moment

Short video on collaborative work

Technologies and collaborationCritical questions for 21st century teachers and example solutions.

How can I help my students to externalize their ideas and share, develop and refine them by collaborating with others?

Question?

Windows Live Movie Maker

How can I support multiple ways of presenting ideas which is not possible with pen and paper, through using audio visual tools?

Question?

Microsoft Surface

How can I provide multiple opportunities for changing and revising learning in a low risk environment?

Question?

Kodu

How can I support my students to work in a non-linear pattern, combining ideas development, editing, refinement and presentation as parallel processes rather than linear?

Question

Microsoft OneNote

Can we afford not to be ready?

Technology might be the answer, but what was the question?

Engagement

Social view of learning

I think, therefore I

am

We participate,

therefore we are

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up

It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed

Every morning a lion wakes up

It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death

It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle

When the sun comes up, you better start running

“The World is Flat..Thomas Friedman 2006”

Thought for the day.

Thank you