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I think it´s extremely hard to make students collaborate effectively. I've tried to use web sites and blogs that allow students to share information, discuss a variety of issues and be creative.

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I agree that collaborative work is fundamental to better prepare the students for their future and the professional real world reality. The school has a fundamental role in preparing them for this, in inducing and showing those skills that Deirdre mentions: negotiation, feedback, listening and consensus. We cannot really effectively work with others if those skills are not exercised.

Using collaborative strategies in the classroom is tricky but the new technologies are fundamental for this and I also with the ITec teachers that the group work “helps” the teachers in better developing the collaborative skills and in helping the students that are more timid or that are better in the practical work. Working collaboratively gives the students the opportunity to help each other in learning better and new competencies.
Assessment, the students have a sense of what each one does and what is each one’s contribute, and peer assessment is important. They know what is right and who worked more or better. In my opinion, the assessment method should be clear from the start so that they all know what is expected from them and that their fellow students are going to have a say in the final results.

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Collaboration is essential and needed in the learning and teaching process. Here technology have a great place but pedagogy is always more important. Number of students, subject in study, school conditions, ... are important factors that we need to take into account. Several studies says that 2-3 students is the best number to make collaborative work in a class.

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I think it´s extremely hard to make students collaborate effectively. I've tried to use web sites and blogs that allow students to share information, discuss a variety of issues and be creative.

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I think collaboration is important because of several reasons. First of all students often like learning more from pears. Second of all they have to realize that they sometimes have a nicer result together then they could have had alone. And last of all, it is an aspect that they will need in work life, so it is important to train this in school.

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i think that the tecnology is very important way to collaborate and comunicate

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I think that using new technologies every student improves capability to collaborate with others atudents and working together. I think for examples at facebook groups that I use with my classrooms.

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Technology is a great way to collaborate and communicate. I've used blogs and wikis with my English and Literature classes and also a Facebook group.

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I believe school should prepare students for the future – for the job market and life. Therefore it is important that they have the opportunity to develop skills that will aid them; performing tasks in a collaborative way and learning from peers may certainly prove to be handy. Students should learn to negotiate, exchange, listen … work interdependently. At times I provide students with a challenge that will require them (in pairs or groups) to solve problems by doing research and exchanging information using diverse media / technology means.

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collaboration is important, because people working together are becoming stronger as a group and that benefits for all. And later, out of school, in the "real" world, they will see, that collaboration is a key qualification.

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Collaboration is one of the important things in a classroom but it’s not so easy. I’m creating group with 4 children with an age between the 12 and 14 years old with different skills. Some students are better in technology, other students can better reading en presenting.

Every group is split in 4 different tasks. 1 student is de big boss of the group, he is telling what they want to do in the classroom. Another student is the reporter and take notes.  The third student is the researcher and can use an iPad of computer to search on the internet or books. And the fort student is the man or woman that is searching different material for the project, like wood, metal etc…

The biggest problem is that some students having problems with collaborating., they are angry or they want to collaborate.

I have different task around technology: testing gears, testing powerunits ets… They can share all the created material with keynote, bookcreator , creative bookbuilder of Explain Everything.

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I agree with Deidre and I appreciated the ideas presented by the iTEC teachers. Collaborative work in classroom is stimulating for students but much of the success in the collaborative work comes from the ability of the teacher in organizing mixed abilities groups, in sharing tasks and the use of ICT, so there is quite a lot of work for the teacher behind the success of a real collaborative teaching and learning.

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Collaboration is one of the most important things we have to learn as it is part of our personal as well as professional lives. As soon as students understand that they can share ideas, work results etc., they are happy to do so. Deirdre was right about the questions we have to ask and the things we have to be aware of, I totally agree with her as well as with the ideas presented by the teachers in the second video. I only wish to have more time to prepare and change our old teaching materials into those supporting more collaboration in the classroom.

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cristina morganti/assessmemt

First of all I would appreciate to have some practical examples of group work vs. cooperative work in the classroom. As for collaborative work it would be crucial to have tools to evaluate each individual student's skill in order to effectively create groups.

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Doing creative things like writing, drawing, role play in order to illustrate an issue or theme explored in class, can promote cooperation. The use of technology can assisst collaborative and creative work offering tools students can use individually or as groups to create and present their work to the rest of the class. Students assume responsibility over their learning in an engaging way and learn to respect and tolerate other people.

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I agree with Deirdre. My students collaborate in pairs when they work research work in biology and chemistry. When we have lesson outside they work in small groups and they prepare prezentation. But mostly it depends of the lesson topics and the aim what we want to do. I like to use collaboration when students work in different projects. I agree with Jan Erik about eTwinning project "ECR 2014". It was my first year in this project. But it was really "COOL" collaboration - very interesting and exciting!

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I consider that collaboration is essential in our entire work, as we should train students to work together, to solve problems together, and bring in all the skills and expertise they have.

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I am still working on methodology improvement. Usually, when kids collaborate they put less effort. I am looking for solutions. So the examples, explanations given in videos were very useful for me personally.

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At school, I have a particular experience, because of working with students that feels depressed at the hospital, collaboration is often more complex, because envolvement is also often difficult, by lack of ennergy. I thing you should keep that in mind for your "healthy" classroom, if one of your students does not feel well collaboration will be something very demanding for him.

In my afterschool activities, we are working with a very mixed group of young working on a robotics project. They are between 14 and 18, and their level of approach of learning is very very different. We had very wonderfull experience of tutoring and exchange between the "kids. It gave to the group a very positive atmosphere to go forward.

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Deirdre gave us a fabulous insight about the key stones for real Collaboration, as well as the skills our students need to learn for developing a proper collaborative work

By underlining the role technology plays in our field, Will gives us extra insight, as well as the other teachers.

I absolutely loved Anna Laghigna’s (Italy) video about collaboration. Awesome!

Therefore, I decided to share a link, for a play, built in collaboration by a whole class of mine,in different groups, but using many of Deirdre’s guidelines (I think):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwReCnjQl18

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Some strategies i use when group activities are proposed: Embed the activity in a real life situation, provide students with tools that may allow to monitor their progress and show their outcomes (be they final or intermediate),assing a different reole to each member of the team and show them how different profiles may contrin¡bute in the same direction to get ba target,using manipulative resources, etc.

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Collaboration between students in a group is really important but it is difficult to make them work equally. I think in order to achieve that, you have to find really stimulating activities.

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I normalliy use groups between my students

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Lidia Liboria Pantaleo, Italy

The collaboration and cooperative work are essential in order to create a stimulating educational situation where peer relationship, curiosity, debate and argumentation become important elements of building knowledge and skills. I use the cooperative method of Cohen working on that status is well suited to the use of educational technology: each student brings into play his skills and abilities and as he was able to experiment with others. The peer group has a very strong power and technologies bring itself the surplus value of the facilitation of communication to the outside of the building shared artifacts, the immediate vision and reflection among peers and loud.

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I am totally agree with the key-word "feedback" of Deirdre's interview , because is the result or the aim of the collaboration process. Show to the rest of the students the experience of work with others.

I recommend to sumarize which skills I want to develope in my classrooms, then create some virtual teams who works in different areas of the subject and that each time it goes rotating trying to mix students with difficulties with advanced students to enhance the collaboration process

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It's always helpfull when you can read about good practices by colleagues, it makes you think about your job in class. I try to let my students work in group and I really can see how they are envolved in the activity and enthusiastic. What I feel is the most difficult is that not always they intend these activities as they are learning and this is because they are not used to this idea of school. The most difficult is when also colleagues and parents do not share the same idea. It is a very difficult, long path to go through but it makes me feel better to know that it finally works

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Collaboration during the process of learning is really beneficial. However, to make it more effective, it is necessary to start teaching our students how to cooperate and inculcate the basics from the earliest classes.

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I work with nine-year olds and have seen that collaboration is a school/class culture that needs to be built gradually. Learners need to be introduced to sharing, negotiating, listening, all necessary skills for life. Assessing, though, individual contributions is quite difficult

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I work with nine-year olds

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After watching the videos I immediately created a note with Evernote because I really want to use the important questions raised by Deirdre to evaluate and plan the future group work I'll decide with my students. I tried cooperative learning, but I noticed that students really engage in group work most of all when they find the task significant, when they know they can build something real or have an impact in the outside world, not only in the classroom. Project based learning offered some answers to the issues we usually encounter when having students work collaboratively. What I found really useful: - Having students in each group (that is when they already know each other well) reflect on each member's strenghts and assets and also on the problems they could face before starting the actual work (and obviuosly try to come up with some strategies to make the group work at its best). This raises the consciuosness and actually helped my students: I had them create collaboratively a map with Popplet. - Create a shared Project Plan or Feasibility study in which students define in advance not only the activities and sub-activities they will have to attend to as a group, but also the role of each member and their chores (with deadlines for each). This helps avoid the risk of having students who do everything and others who don't engage.

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I love the cooperative learning, but by the way it's very hard to work with this method!!

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I normally use groups between my students, i teach religion and so i have only a hour per week, so I decided to improve communication skills and cooperation work in the class and in learning activities. I normally base my activity on google apps for education, particularly Drive, for sharing and show the products of collaborative work.

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Collaboration is one of the main pillars between teacher and children.

I agree with Deirdre about working with children and it is a big challenge for me to to organize my work in this way.

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I agree with Deirdre point of view about collaboration. The working in pairs, groups are good for students, but it is not easy to work in this way. Sometimes it is big challenge for me, when i work in classes with students with behavioral disorder or low motivation of learning.

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I completely agree with Deirdre about the real meaning of work and collaboration. However, in my opinion and my experience, we are not able to do everything profitably only because teachers. I mean, we teachers must first have experienced what we intend to apply. If we teachers are not well trained in the field of operation of the groups (group dynamics) and the dynamics of cognitive development, it is said that effective results can be achieved by simply putting heads together to collaborate. We know that behind there are important processes of socialization, that there are personality with strong leadership and other more introverted. How to combine these people together so that all achieve the objectives? I believe that this fundamental competence to be cultivated from kindergarten, obviously starting with those behaviors that are the root and develop gradually and progressively. I believe that this expertise is what Dewey called for when he spoke of democratic education.

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It's harder than a normal lesson to prepare collaborative projects but it's important to develop skills such the sharing of ideas, the communication of results and their assesment ,etc that are often involved when students work together.

I like the idea of integrating a diversity of students within the same groups. In this way everybody can feel 'useful' towards the achievement of the target.

I miss in your videos information concerning the assesment when using collaborative projects.

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Deirdre explanation about collaborative dimensions is sustancial to understand the meaning of real working together: Share reponsability, real feedback, substantive decitions, negociation.

From the interviews I can see they agree collaboration is a way to learn from each other and be more creative but I can't see they know how to do it effectively

I agree collaborative work is an essential way to learn but I fail in knowing how to evaluate their interactive work or given questions and technology that implies real collaboration to problem solving.

In my classes I ask them to co-evaluate their team work.

What I usually find is they join the parts of the work but they do not create interactive work; so sometimes their findings are wrong or partial.

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In my traditional schooling students do their own work and receive their own grades except when we work for the etwinning projects. After this course I'll do better because I'm really agree with Deidre and the iTEc teachers. Collaboration is a key skill for nowdays society.

Strategies: distribution of tasks on different levels of students'abilities , integration of ideas with group leaders and agreement on what must be done with the help of teacher as a facilitator

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ELSA RAMOS/PORTUGAL

For me in my subject is very important using the collaborative work..I usually work in small groups and pair groups.. Some students with more abilities or skills can help other students..this is a good strategy in my point of view..And a have some experience becauase I use a lot in my etwinning projects.

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I also think that collaboration among

students is very important and helps

them to to accomplish other skills beyond the taks the teacher asked them to do as it is mentioned in the videos by some of the iTec teachers.

Yet, and Deirdre put it quite well, to make it effective you have to plan it very well specially if the students have to work interdependently which is, in my opinion, one of the easiest ways to learn as each group is a puzzle piece and in the end of the work you have the puzzle done.

I have to say that I only use this practice after I know the students well in orther to organize the groups according to the students skills.

I teach portuguese to students aged 12 to 15 and when we are studying short stories or even a novel I distribute the different contents for the groups. Each group has a content to present (the narrator, the characters, the time, the space, etc.) and when the group works are presented the students gather all the informations and by the end of the presentations we discuss both the final results and the group works.

Another strategy you may use is to ask the groups to improve works which are supposed to be finished. This may be done with lots of subjects and I am sure the results are going to surprise you because the students will exceed your expectations.

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What's ideal when it comes to collaboration in our classrooms? Here's one coveted scenario: several children gathered at a table engaged in a high-level task, discussing, possibly debating an issue, making shared decisions, and designing a product that demonstrates all this deeper learning.

As teachers, we'd love to see this right out the gate, but this sort of sophisticated teamwork takes scaffolding. It won't just happen by placing students together with a piece of provocative text or an engaging task. (this deeper learning collaboration is challenging for most adults!) Before we can see an effective collaboration in the class we must start by establishing the basis: establishing group agreements, making them good listeners, teach them how to negotiate,..

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I often work in groups because I believe that it is best for my students. Cooperation in the group is an essential skill for the future of each student and in this way develop other skills

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I think that classroom collaboration both among students and teacher and among students is very effective in order to learning and human growth of students/teachers. The most important point of a collaboration process is, in my opinion, sharing of responsibility. Besides this, the success of a collaboration strategy depends on the capacities of the teacher. He/she has to be a moderator, a facilitator, a coach, he/she must choose well the components of groups. So it's a hard work for the teacher!
I often use group work in the classroom, but I don't use the cooperative learning. They are two things really different!

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I agree that collaboration among pupils is important, however I don't use working in groups very often. I think in small groups some pupils feel more confident and responsible about their work. Like others I have a good practice of collaboration in eTwinning projects.

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Students learn well when they understand and can. Teachers are willing to give them that opportunity. but they can do it if you know how. often good techniques are used incorrectly, and it turns out that the method, in this case, group work: cooperation, teamwork, do not give the desired result. I think that in our school, we have to help teachers use the methods collaboration work in the classroom.

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Collaboration in the classroom is a great challenge because often stronger students tend to dominate the group and students with less confidence might feel inhibited. I think the challenge is to engage each student in the collaborative work. If the teacher creates assignments where a large set of skills can be used then it's easier to assign work that allows every student to shine. In time confidence will grow and every student will be able to take part on the same terms.

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Andreas Galanos (Greece) / Collaborative problem solving

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Andreas Galanos (Greece) / Collaborative problem solving

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Collaborative problem solving requires the use and application of different skills and resources that multiple collaborators can bring in.

So, the groups have to comprise of students with different skills and different levels of literacy so that each one of them can contribute to the group work.

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Andreas Galanos (Greece) / Collaborative problem solving

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Andreas Galanos (Greece) / Collaborative problem solving

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Collaborative problem solving

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Once again, these videos helped assess my work in the classroom. Deirdre referred a number of questions teachers should ask themselves when using collaborative work with other students. Those questions will be my starting point next time I’ll use group or pair work in my classroom. As a primary teacher I find it hard to organise a productive and meaningful activity involving group work. The first obstacle I usually encounter is setting the group members: sometimes I have kids that refuse to work with their peers, they only want to work with their friends... Sometimes is hard to come to an arrangement. After all I think is contra productive to force any activity on our students. Another obstacle I encounter is the “noise” they make when working together. I always remember my students the “ideal conditions” to work in groups but, at these ages, they sometimes tend to be very excited and effusive. I use self assessment and peer assessment to control some aspects involving pair or group work.

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Think that the ideas of colleagues are interesting, communication & collaboration via new ICT in the classroom are crucial in order to develop 21st century skills of students. It's great that learners can improve their language & CLIL competencies through contemporary digital tools, it's nice that 'flipping classrooms' can change school education. 'Schools kill creativity!', says K. Robinson but we can answer 'Creativity is excellent!', through new technologies, mobile learning & successful collaboration.

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I belive in the cooperative Learning and peer tutoring=)

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The two videos are interesting because they express the importance of collaboration and the use of technology. I believe that collaboration should be more widespread among teachers collegh, in his own school. The issue in Italy is complex: we have fewer financial resources but more skills needs by the Ministry of Education. Many good practices of cooperation depend on the willingness of some teachers who dedicate their free time to these activities: self-formation participation in courses and seminars collaboration in European projects (eTwinning, Comenius, Erasmus) intake of specific tasks within the school (low-paid in relation to the work load).

Regarding the collaboration between students,( I teach in primary school, but this also applies to high school), I think it is important to create stimulating and motivating activities for the group or for the class, where collaborate becomes an activity not only necessary but also rewarding , because students work together, according to their ability, to create a final product. In this way, everyone has an important role in the group or class, and then also learn to take responsibility for their own work.

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Activities involving collaboration CAN benefit learning but this is not necessarily the case. Our challenge is to identify appropriate collaborative activities which facilitate learning for all students while enabling assessment against national curriculum standards. I liked the examples given and would like to hear more practical ideas!

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Organizing a collaborative group to be really functional is difficult, but it can be a great challenge in education!

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As a drama teacher, I found that group games for getting to know each other, for communication, concentration, bonding and trust are necessary in the beginning of each year. Children don't know how to collaborate unless we show them how. It can be fun, instead of annoying and frustrating.

For the last three years I have been working with primary schools' students (6-12 years old) on digital storytelling. We even participating in an eTwinning project on digital stories.

Listening, waiting with patience for my turn to give feedback, negotiating/dealing with chronic disputes/conflicts and supporting my idea have been really challenging for the students in one-hour per week drama lessons, if the rest of the stuff doesn't focus on these skills. I could't help noticing what a huge difference f amilarizing the rest of the stuff as well as the parents with these goals makes!

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Collaboration is the key to any form of successful group work. This year in my year 10 Maths class we have been joining 3 classes together to participate in problem solving activities. Some weeks we allow them to form a group with whoever they like and other weeks we get them to form groups that fit certain criteria. In the beginning we were very watchful with regard to group dynamics, staying on task etc. what we have now found is that our students have developed a better understanding of what group work means and they need less guidance from us to perform the tasks. More time is now spent by our students solving more complex problems and the quality and depth of their solutions is amazing. I think we any 'new' task you do you need to build up slowly. Our first attempts at collaborative learning were by no means a disaster but we did come across a number of pitfalls like some students dominating and other students not contributing. But after three terms of using this we are seeing much better results. I also believe that if you want students to work collaboratively then you need to model that as a teacher. We have a very strong team working in year 10 Maths and I think it is reflected in the way our students work in groups.

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Collaboration between students is very important, but, from my experience I have to say, for students it's difficult to cooperate in groups. I often give students tasks for groups and it looks different. Most of students prefer working on their own. Maybe it's bcause at my school teachers also prefer giving tasks for individual work. It looks as we have a lot to do to prepare our student for the future. I think projects, international projects are a great way to teach students howto work in groups. I have to pay my attention on group work as students need to work  in groups to learn collaboration.

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The advantages of collaborative work in the teaching/learning process are immense, I have no doubt about that. Yet, getting there can be quite an ardous task. As Deirdre says, we need to train our students to improve their skills to listen to their peers, to negotiate, to reach agreements, to take decisions, to deal with internal group problems. The first time I used group work for collaborative purposes in my classroom, I devoted lots of energy, time work and illusion but I had very little idea of what lay ahead in front of me and I did not take into account that my students had not been trained to work collaboratively. Consequently, the results were quite disheartening. But that helped me improve the organization and development of next project. Not that now I find no problems when introducing collaborative work but, at least, I know what to expect. My idea is to take my students right where I want them to be and then let them take over.

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Is important to educate at collaboration. Is a key competence essential to work in the 21° century.

But also teachers must be more collaborative in the school. Sometimes there are teachers that prefere work alone.

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Collaboration should be enanced in our classes. Pupils work well in groups, they learn to share responsabilities, they understand that what they do will have a consequence for the whole group, they learn to discuss and share idea, they develop their skills. I use group work above all in CLIL lessons or during actvities for eTwinning projects.

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You can have a good level of collaboration among students when teachers will be cooperative. Cooperation is the key-word of my English lessons:

1) I always ask them to prepare a project about a topic suggested from our text-book or from TV news. It's funny to look them so busy in learning and playing role.

2) I usually make them in group of four following their sitting places because it's quick and, if I haven't a specific reason, they are free to choose the role in the work.

3) At the end of a module they have a group test: in a class of 24 I prepare a questionnaire with 24 questions, then I give four questions for each of the six groups and they have to answer them as good as they can. Teacher/s evaluate for each group the quality of the answers, who said what and how, the quality of cooperation, interaction and reaponsability.

An important opportunity to improve our cooperative aspect is to work in ETWINNING.

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I agree with Deirdre that collaboration is very important in the classroom, the teacher would allow students to choose to feel independent and at the same time being responsible for the overall group / pairs score and feedback. <br>I try to make my students to choose their working methods and tools that enable them to cooperate effectively in a group and are happy to teach each other.

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I like collaboration. I use group working and my pupils love it. Pupils learn responsibility, they lay differerent role, they become more creative and they aren't affraid to share their ideas with peers. They can learn from each other. Etwinning projects are the great opportunity to learn collaboration between pupils but also between teachers and pupils.

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Why Collaborative problems solving is relevant to EFL learners.Effective
communication and collaboration are essential to becoming a successful learner. It is primarily through dialogue and examining different perspectives that students become knowledgeable, strategic, self-determined, and empathetic. Moreover, involving students in real-world tasks and linking new information to prior knowledge requires effective communication and collaboration.

Deirdre is right. It is not enough to engage students in group or pair work.
Whereas in group work, the participants draw on the same resources to find a common strategy, collaborative problem solving requires that people share their resources, and their strategies, in order to reach a common goal.

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I find Deirdre's questions to decide whether the collaboration is effective or not, very helpful and I plan to keep them in mind when designing my next year's school activities! I also liked the view that collaboration enhances the feeling of ownership students have for their work and Laurent Blanquer's system of peer evaluation of groupwork!

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The collaboration between teachers and students is very important.

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Indeed, collaboration between student and teacher is important and learning success

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collaborate is to achieve a common goal by contributing their own abilities, respecting rules and roles, using different instruments

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my students work together when I propose a goal to reach and organize them into small groups with different abilities within them. reach the goal by learning from each other and finally publish their developed on the site of the class. We have also collaborated with other countries in eTwinning projects and the interest has been increased. shared documents allow us to work at different times and from a distance and pupils feel involved and responsible

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In the last month of the previous school year I was piloting SMART amp and it clearly showed how collaborating through technology is crucial for building team work, mutual understanding and social intelligence.

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I think that collaboration between teachers and students is very important in order to facilitate the learning process.

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My idea of collaboration in the classroom is maily referred to the eTwinning projects I'm used to doing with most of my classes. Here students have the possibility to work in groups having an effective collaboration, as Ms. Butler suggested. They share responsibility, they decided also what to do and how. Sometimes, in the luckiest situations, we can also form mixed group s from different Countries.

ICT help collaboration a lot .

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Collaboration can be effective as far as we can handle it, be aware of its special features and the steps to accomplish it.As a process is quite time consuming and noisy to be adopted in each lesson and I think we should study the theoretical part of this method as we have no previous experience of collaborative practices as students.Personally , I believe that we as teachers should try to apply the method in ourselves first ,trying to produce a collaboborative work among our collegues.It would be useful to see the difficulties face to face αna experience it as a whole.

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Collaborative learning is very useful, in my opinion. In my Physics class I often give a group activity, as an easy experiment to be done at home in group of four/five students, using materials that can be found at home. Then students have to write a shared online report. In this way they do some practical activity in the presence, and some virtual activity.

I agree with Laurent Blanquer about the issue of the assessement, because even in Italy we have to assess students individually. But I think that assessement isn't the main goal of the school, and for the group activity I give a grade to the collective activity, and each student of the group takes the grade.

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The big issue with collaborative work is assessment, because our education system asks for individual grades. We still do not evaluate competencies here in France in what we call "le lycée".

To ensure that there is an effective collaboration between all the students when they work in groups, I ask them at the end of each period to evaluate their peers on a scale from 1 to 5. I take it into account for the final grade

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I also think colaboration is important in class. I work many times with my class in groups. I find still quite difficult to evaluate everyones contribution....but still I think that all of them learn more like this. At the end ussually every team have to present their work and in that moment each can show its own contribution to the final result of the work.

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I like the state the not every group work is a real collaboration. Sometimes some students take all the hard work and work actually independently in the goup. As a foreign language teacher I use a lot of working in groups and I can notice that very well. My pupils are very co-operative while working togehther on some project but as wo do not have a lot of ICTE possibilities in our school we are learning/working more-or-less only in the classroom. I hope this will change in the future;)

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In Primary school I teach English language and collaboration using a red soft ball. In order to participate in my language game pupil have to raise their hand and catch the red soft ball which I through to them. Once a child has caught the ball in his/her hand s/he can speak. If s/he does not remember what to say or answer, s/he can through the soft red ball back to me or to one of his/her companion. I use this soft red ball to teach kids vocabulary or phrases: I like or do not like sentences, Can or can't phrases, who, where, what, when, questions, salty and sweet food, clothes to wear in winter or in the Summer etc. I have a hard time thinking about how I could teach collaboration through technology in my classes, there is too little technology in my school.! So far the only collaboration lesson I get from technology, is based on juggling with my colleagues who is lucky enough to use the smart board on a particular day.

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Collaboration keeps all the students active! Like this, the students won't get bored, which is often the case when the students are not actively involved.

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We can talk about the different levels of collaborative learning. In order to cover all levels, it is necessary to design tasks and activities which enable students to choose their topic, their role in the group, activities and tools that will be used. The task must be given so that students at work depend on each other which encourages and strengthens mutual his cooperation, and promote the activation of the entire student personality as well as implementation of their life skills.

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To encourage feedback and efficient collaboration, I use Edmodo, a social network dedicated to Education. Students are encourage to post content they find interesting and share them with their peers, together with giving feeback and comment upon their peers' posts.

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I totally agree with the ideas presented by Deirdre and the other colleagues. Deirdre highlights that it's important to know exactly how students collaborate during the activity. We have to decide the way we want to lead them and what skills we want to assess. Mixing students is a good idea as the final work could be rich if there is a student being creative, another good in writing.... This requires to know well our students. What tools they use ? It depends on the activity and their pratice in ICT. This implies that they have to develop autonomy and initiative.

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I agree with the ideas presented by Deirdre and the iTEC teachers. Collaboration - working together, coming up ideas and discussing problems together in a smaller group (it's easier to be creative while collaborating), solving problems, creating and interpreting an outcome, has an important role in the learning process while using modern technology tools. I recommend using etwinning as well.

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European projects as etwinning, erasmus + are very good practice to work in groups.

When we want investigate about one theme working in groups is more effectively.

It is important how we make groups with our students to obtain as much work as possible from them.

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Collaboration, sharing ideas and knowleges are very important in teaching and learning processes

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Tasks can be accomplished effectively and easily when a group of student work together instead individuals doing it alone. But people don’t always communicate well, so, effective collaboration needs some practices.

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I think collaboration is the key concept for the future classroom scenario. Collaboration is to be thought as a new way of learning through your friends' knowledge. I really enjoyed this part of the module, and Iìm eager to get new ideas and feedback on this topic

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In my opinion collaboration and the model of it for 21st Learning is really important of how we teach with or without ICT. As written before the variety of class sequences is important for me, too. Sometimes though it is easier to think about a problem on your own and then share it with others, be it in pairs or in a group

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I really enjoyed listening to the view of the iTEC teachers. I particuarly liked Kerry's statements. It is true that some children shy away from participating when it is the whole group of 26 children. But they feel more confident and take ownership when there are just two or three or four children in a group.

As a teacher of Maths, collaboration usually works best for me when I teach word problems, because the children ten to come up with different ideas and discussions on how to solve a given problem.

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I really like the model of collaboration in the 21st Learning document shared above. It really makes me reflect on the different aspects of collaboration within the classroom. Overall though I think we need variability in approach and choose the right learning activities for each scenario. I am aware that some of our adult classes have students who feel they have paid to be taught by the teacher and are resistant to more innovative methods of delivery.

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I think that sharing responsability for the results of a group work is the key for an effective cooperation. Everyone should be in charge of a different task, but they should change their role in the team: the more successful the individual is, the more successful the group will be. And each contribution will be fundamental for all the group. No student left behind should be the motto.