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Thee issues are important.

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For this quote : "in the futur, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes! " i think that Andy meant that later the mdia will be developed and more accessible to general public like today where everyone is connected on social networks. Everyone posting a photo, video or even a tweet that can be funny, shocking, sad, plausible shared by thousands of internet users and even relayed by the big media can become famous.

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I agree with Maria Diaconou from Romania.I would also like to add that it is very important to consider the cognitive level of the students in each collaborative group

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I agree with Maria Diaconou from Romania.I would also like to add that it is very important to consider the cognitive level of the students in each collaborative group

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All they are so usefull and effective solutions about tending colobrative learning and designing teaching&learning environmens.Working together and making decisions about their hypothesis will encourage to best Communication on way to solutions of their problems

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I have never asked myself these precise questions, and think they are quite useful.

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I think these four questions are fundamental to ensure the high quality of the project work and should be asked all over again. I have reflected upon them but these activities have made me even more aware.

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I think these four questions are fundamental to ensure the high quality of the project work and should be asked all over again. I have reflected upon them but these activities have made me even more aware.

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The 4 major questions are  useful in helping I design a collaborative learning activity. I have  asked yourself these questions before when designing collaborative learning activities.

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The questions are very helpful for us to really understand what the collaborative lesson means in all its stages. Before learning about these four questions I was asking myself about how to design colaborative learning so that children make as much time as possible their own movements throughout learning items.

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Thanks to Professor Butler to make us reflect on these points. Too often we just look at the group work in a superficial way and this does not make things easier, not for the students, or for us. These questions must be kept in mind all along the learning process.

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[I would start by pointing that the fourth "question" isn't really addressed in the video...]

In my opinion, the video presents a very comprehensive set of questions we must consider when we are "Co-lab" designing.
Developpping the necessary skills to work within a group is fundamental for youths. In a modern reallity (that we can just roughly project in the future) "working" efficiently becomes a direct synonim of working in a cooperative context. The habilities of collectively define a problem, analyze alternatives and picture a solution must be worked from early ages in our schools.
Sharing responsabilities is also of great importance in adolescents' personal formation. There must be always an ethical concern in working routines that goes beyond the simple efficiency of delivering a product. The purpose of my effort, the reason why I choose a method, the way I evaluate the result of my project, are very sensitive aspects, that assume an exponential importance when I'm working with others to achieve a common goal. And that's something we must devellop from a very young age.

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This video helps me remember that students can work together when they have a common real task to face up, starting from the awareness that both the group and the task itself are indivisible. Therefore, all members are mutually responsible for the outcome

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I think that the 4 major questions presented by Professor Deirdre Butler are really essential when teachers are designing a collaborative learning activity.

Working together isn't the same as collaborating. Collaborating is more complex; it involves sharing responsibity, making decisions and work interdependent. When I design collaborative learning activties I have these questions in mind. I think then when we work in Etwinning project we can use and share these tasks at the best . You can also share your product with other classes that are working on the same goals.

I agree that we have to start to keep it simple in order to involve  our students in activities they can do and less by less increase their work.

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The 4 major questions presented by Professor Deidre Butler are very useful but is also fundamental to design a collaborative learning activity. The teacher lead the students to manage their skills.

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I think that the questions presented by Professor Deirdre Butler are not only fundamental to drawing a collaborative work, but also for the teacher to be able to evaluate the participation of each element of the group in the process.

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I believe the 4 major questions presented by Professor Deirdre Butler are not only useful but also essential when teachers are designing a collaborative learning activity. Working together isn't the same as collaborating. Collaborating is more complex; it involves sharing responsibity, making decisions and work interdependent. When I design collaborative learning activties I have these questions in mind. I agree that in the beginning we have to keep it simple or our students will be overwhelmed.

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I think that these questions  are really important if we want our students to do a collaborative work instead of working  together.
Collaborating is complex during  the group or pair work the students must share responsibility, make substantive decisions to come to a final product as a mutual responsible  outcome.
As teacher we should give our students freedom to shape the content, process and product.
Collaboration is much more than cooperation!!!!

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Personally I am convinced that questions presented by Professor Butler are very important and should be taken into account any time we involve students to do group / team work. It is not easy to design the work so as to engage all the students in the same way. But we can do our best to help them take "equal " responsibilities for their parts. We can teach teach how to make sunstantive decisions by observing the process they go through to get the goal. We can also let them feel independent being only experts who help when necessary.

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A major breakthrough in teachers' practice is when we shed our role as loudspeakers of bookish knowledge and realize that we can build broader skills in our students.

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Deirdre ideas are very good. When people work in team , I consider very important to understand the interdependence. The goals is to assign tasks that require collaboration skills. I believe that decisitions made by students can dictate the quality of work produced, and the quality of colaborative work. Students should be able to manage the process, leaded by the teacher orientations. This way they can manage the learning process, improve collaborative skillls. evaluate coleagues, evaluate theirselfs...

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I haven't thought critically and deeply about these four questions in my lesson plans beforehand and I believe that they really pinpoint the necessary elements in an assessment rubric. As far as I have learned from the video:
This video also helps us creating a rubric for evaluating collaboration. Deidre Butler is asking four questions in the video:
Are they working together?
Do they have shared responsibility?
Do they make sunstantive decisions?
Is their work interdependent?

1. According to her, working together means that students have an opportunity to work in pairs or groups to discuss an issue, to solve a problem or to create a product. So teachers have to be very clear what are they doing. And students could actually work with people outside the classroom. Students in other classes, students from another school, or actually outside community members or experts in the field. However, they can also work face to face or they could use the technology.

2. If they have shared responsibility, if they work in pairs or groups, if they have a common product they are working on, a common design or a response to something; then, you are looking at shared responsibility. But it has to be remember a common product, a common design, a common response. So they have to collectively own the work, and being mutually responsible for its outcomes. If the group involves students or adults from outside the classroom, it only qualifies as shared responsibility if the people are equally responsible, and mutually responsible for the tasks. Otherwise it is only working together.

3.  They make substantive decisions when they have to resolve important issues that will guide their work together. Important issues about the content, the process or the product. So initially,teachers may actually make them design the activity in such a way that they only have to make decisions maybe about the process. You have set maybe the questions to be investigated, etc. shared responsibility, but they will decide on how they are going to do it; the process. Or it could be content, so they actually have freedom over the content.
They may also have to make a decision about the hypotheses that they will test. So they are making substantive decisions about the content or they are making substantive decisions about the process, or they are making substantive decisions about the product that will develop in response to the task. As they get more expert, you will actually be able to maybe give them the responsibility to decide maybe the process and the product. But please don’t design tasks in the beginning that actually leave them overwhelmed. You have to build up their expertise.

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These 4 questions are fundamental in designing strategies to be developed in the classroom. They help us to reflect in advance on how to propose challenges to the students in order to involve them all in a final product where they will have the answers and where they will have appropriate the contents of learning. This presentation remind me that we can integrate here the strategies developed in Project-based Learning and the strategies used in Inquiry Based Science Education ( "Engage", "Explore", "Explain", "Elaborate" Exchange "and" Empowerment "), will it?

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I think these four questions are useful for planning a collaborative learning activity because if the teacher reflects on them it will be able to more easily measure the level of collaboration among their students. Even so, I do not think it will be so straightforward and clear how to assess aspects such as shared responsibility and positive interdependence.

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I think it's important and necessary learn to distinguish the concepts of Cooperation and Collaboration.
We need to realize this to really start collaborating.
Collaborating is more than just cooperating.

We work collaboratively when working with others and making substantive decisions together about: Content, Process, Product ;  sharing responsibilities.
I had already thought about this because I have tried to promote collaborative work among the teachers of my math group.

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Are they working together?

Do they share responsibility?

Do they make substantive decisions?

Is their work interdependent?
I think that 4 major questions are very useful to design a collaborative learning activity. I think that making decision about the content, process and product it´s essencial to collaborative learning.

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Excellent for checking! These 4 questions are as an algorithm for self-reflection. When we are designing collaboration activity we should ask ourselves these questions. And the level of collaboration will be identified by our answers.

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The four issues presented are very important for the organization of group work and for obtaining a final work that is really the result of everyone's work. Team members have to enjoy working together, there must be responsibility for everyone and clear task definition. Of course, the teacher acts as moderardor and guiding the work that is being done.

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Yes, these 4 questions are very important because they'll allow us to reorganise our teaching and center it on the students work and on working really together

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The four major questions presented by Professor Deirdre Butler are very important and the basis of collaborative work. They are useful in helping to design collaborative learning activity and also in evaluating it. It is unpredictable for teachers to ask these questions before designing collaborative learning activities.

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This questions are very important to start a collaboration activity, because we can stay in track with assessment issues, and to make a efective feedback of the collaboration to students, making a student centred learning focus during the activity. Quite often I try to think on some of this questions and design assessment grids or checklists during observation of group work/pair work.

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Are they working together?

Do they share responsibility?

Do they make substantive decisions?

Is their work interdependent?

Therefore the four questions are a perfect way to evaluate whether there was collaborative work or not.

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The four major questions presented by Professor Deirdre Butler are crucial guidelines for the design of collaborative learning activities. By asking ourselves if the activities we're designing fulfil these four major requirements we're ensuring that our students will develop the corresponding skills: ability to do teamwork, ability to share responsibility, ability to make substantive decisions together and the ability to depend on the work of the other group members to achieve a common outcome or product. I also agree that collaborative work is not something that our students will grasp from the very begin so we're starting with collaborative learning activities that focus on shared decisions about how to carry out the activity instead of about the content or product of the activity.

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All the four questions are very important. It is necessary that students get clear explanations of what do do and what is expected from them
before they start the activities. That means a carefully organized plan.

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Yes, i agree. These are always the most important questions in project management. So we as the project managers should also make that clear for the students. They also should reflect the actions and desicions in the group regarding these questions.

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It is always difficult to design a collaborative learning activity. Unfortunately Isee how many gaps I have. Thanks for the video!

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Yes, I think the four questions are very helpful to plan and arrange a proper collaborative learning activity. While working in a project my students often ask me for very clear guidance, they think they will receive orders and of course it would  easier and faster for the teacher , but it is not what we want to do!
It is important that they discuss,solve, create, share responibilities and take risks...

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All of them are so crucial!
They are not easy to do and they need careful planning. It is difficult even or the teachers

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Those are,in fact,4 big  issues when we are planing a collaborative learning activity.
Students must learn how to work together, sharing their ideas and the responsability of the results. It's not the thing they do: "let's split tasks; mine, yours...". It's much more than that.
Those questions will help me to preparemy collaborative learning activity from now on.

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The 4 questions are really useful in helping designing a collaborative learning. I have yet designed collaborative learning but I didn't have asked them to me before. Now I'm sure it will be easier to design a collaborative learning because the 4 questions are a great tool.

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These questions are not only useful but important, too. I asked myself part of them but not all. I never asked if they shared their responsabilities. I wonder, now, why? This is an important step but I always failed.

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These are actually four relevant topics to define collaborative learning. I must tell that I never though on these topics as being the basis of all the work I do, nevertheless all the observation and guidance I already do to all students when they work in groups. Students need to work together, to share ideas and responsibilities and take decisions together. Only working like this they can be autonomous.

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I was looking for an effective way of learning for a particular course "RetailSoftware". The 4 major questions will be very useful in helping me design a collaborative learning activity and explain my students the interest of learning this way. Thank you.

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I think de main idea of this video was:
- We work together when we share responsabilities
- We must work in groups and have our own responsabilities
- Working together is important when we have equal responsability
I never think in these questions when I design a colaborative learning, but it´s realy important.

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I have repeatedly asked such questions whenever I proposed collaborative learning activities in my classroom, but it was impossible for me to give a global and above all "non-sentimental" response. Now, thanks to these 4 major questions and the explanations offered by Professor Butler, all my questions have been answered. Thank you very much Professor !

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Understanding the difference between working together and collectively working and being responsible is important.

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Working together doesn't mean always collaborating or cooperating. When designing the collaboration these are the main question the teacher should asking himself:
Are they working together?
Do they have shared responsability?
Do they make substantive decisions?
Is their work interdependent?
Teacher should keep in mind that the main aim is  to build up the student expertise.

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making decision about the content, process, product

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The collaboration questions work as important guidelines, so they are very useful for collaborative learning activity. The four questions: Are they working together? Do they have shared responsibility? Do they make substantive decisions? Is their work interdipendent? explanin how I can plan collaborative activities. Students have to be clear what are they doing and being responsible for their outcomes.

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I agree with four questions and I think it's really important to be able our students make decisions they can shape content, process and results.

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I think the questions are very interesting. They will help me when I'll design a collaborative learning activity. I really never thought about it. We learn with the experiences we have access.

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Quatro questões?

Four questions? There seemed more… but all of them important in the creation of a collaborative activity, even though I don’t always observe them…

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Now I see that sometimes what I thought if as a collaborative work actually wasn't one.
It makes things much clearer now and it will make my lesson planning more effective. Thank you prof. Butler.

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I fully agree on the importance that the four questions, highlighted by Prof. Deirdre Butler, have in the design, management and evaluation of collaborative learning.

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I think that these questions are important. Sometimes we do not predict that the collaborative work that we planned may be sabotaged by good students that want to have good grades and make all the important decisions themselves. Because nowadays there is a lot of competition among good students. So, we must have alternative ways to show the students that the work is a team effort and not a battle for good grades.

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I agree with 4 questions

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I share and I agree with prof Butler said, so I give an opportunity to my pupils. They  work in pairs or groups, discuss about a topic, solve  problems and they can create a product. They have many and different possibilities of learning and helping each others.

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I consider that the questions raised by Professor Butler are interesting and should be taken into account in the planning of collaborative learning activities. Most of the time when I plan activities involving collaborative learning, I have the awareness that I did not direct myself and these questions directly and objectively, but that they were subconsciously involved in a certain way. However, from now on these issues must be taken into account when planning such activities.
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I consider that the questions raised by Professor Butler are interesting and should be taken into account in the planning of collaborative learning activities. Most of the time when I plan activities involving collaborative learning, I have the awareness that I did not direct myself and these questions directly and objectively, but that they were subconsciously involved in a certain way. However, from now on these issues must be taken into account when planning such activities.

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I consider that the questions raised by Professor Butler are interesting and should be taken into account in the planning of collaborative learning activities. Most of the time when I plan activities involving collaborative learning, I have the awareness that I did not direct myself and these questions directly and objectively, but that they were subconsciously involved in a certain way. However, from now on these issues must be taken into account when planning such activities.

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Of course we think about collaboration when we are preparing a lesson. What we don't always think is whether the outcome will be everybody's responsibility. The questions asked here are important to define the type of work you want, the aim and the outcome you expect. Work with others...face to face or not, having a shared responsability for a common project, for its outcome, and make decisions together of how to do it,...those are things we don't think about entirely.

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I agree with the four questions though I think that the last one "Is their work interdependent?" could be obsolete when the students work together, have shared resposibility and make substantive decisions. I think that if you comply with the first three questions the last one becomes sort of a consequence.

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Very useful questions to consider before planning collaborative learning indeed.I've been trying to implement them but I feel I need more training myself too so as to feel really happy with my work.   I usually provide lots of guiding and support and the way I see it now, I deprive them of free choice as far as substantive decions are concerned.

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I agree with these 4 questions/viewpoints and with the necessity of developing these skills
at school. I would like to work with like minded colleagues, we should have been trained this way!

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Ofcourse! This questions is important for planning a collaborative learning activity. Into group need to establish responsibilitys, to analyze the situation, make decisions, to work interdependent in achieving objectives

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To me, these four questions are required for creating a rudimentary collaboration in an educational setting.But I don't think these four questions are adequate in a collaborative environment. We can also add some other questions. One of the questions to be asked can be like following. "Are all the individual needs, learning styles and interests embedded into the collaboration.This is another perspective but this does not need to be thought as isolated from collaboration. As for the questions, I have always asked myself these questions but not only these questions. Shared responsibility, interdependency, substantive decisions and working together can be more attractive for all the group members when they are also motivated as individuals.

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In our view, these are the four pillars for design collaborative learning. Students need to work together, share responsibilities, make important decisions together, and be autonomous. Usually, prior to starting collaborative work, students have these four questions at the foundation of all collaborative learning. It is not always easy to manage these issues in the group, but with dialogue and teamwork, it will be easier.

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The four major questions presented by Professor Deirdre Butler are all important for me when I'm designing a collaborative learning activity. I already  asked myself the first and second questions but to do a deeper reflection on students work  and the quality of their goals I should pay more attention to the last ones. I think I will have some difficulties in observing those big ideas.

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The 4 major questions help me to reflect and think about how my pupils work, specially when they are in pairs /groups and the task they have to carry out. That's really interesting!

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Dulce Freire, Fernanda Cunha, Marco Fernandes and Vítor Silva, Portugal

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Dulce Freire, Fernanda Cunha, Marco Fernandes and Vítor Silva, Portugal

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Following what we learned in Module1. these four precise questions now make much sense. We recognize that by now we'd never actually put these issues despite observe / follow  students during their work group and we base the accomplishment of the task on  that idea, that we now call collaborative work, we never thought them the way we are doing now "Unus pro omnibus". Students work with a single goal.
This four questions presented by Professor Deirdre Butler will undoubtedly guide our work in the preparation of activities for students.

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These are good questions if we only focus on collaborative learning. However, we have to find a compromise between the students' abilities and interests, the subject matter, the parents' expectations and our own, the classroom restrictions of time and space. Consequently, it is extremely rare for us to say YES to all of these questions regarding one project.

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Basically what we get from the questions presented is the basic functionality of the groups, what type of collaboration is going to be engage and it's explained that this is an skill learned through out different learning experiences and that for an effective planification we need to be clear of the objectives and goals that the group should reach, for example what kind of collaboration is going to take place, what part of the work is responsibility of what member, how much participation will be needed to finished the work an de how this will be measure and what to evaluate and how and based on this is how we make rubrics and planning. So it's essential we asked ourselves all these questions before engaging in the activity because students have to know the rules of the game beforehand so they can perform as it is expected.

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Ana Elisabete Teixeira, Vila Nova de Cerveira- Portugal

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Ana Elisabete Teixeira, Vila Nova de Cerveira- Portugal

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The 4 Questions Collaboration

The four main issues presented by Butler teacher are important for planning a collaborative learning activity.
The group work, shared responsibility, taking substantive decisions and self-employment are key elements in collaborative learning. Students will have the opportunity to work in pairs or groups to discuss a problem, to solve a problem or create a product. The teacher has to follow the work of the students. They can work with others outside the classroom, including students from other classes, other experts in the field they are studying.
I never questioned me about these questions the way she suggested.

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The four main issues presented by Butler teacher are important for planning a collaborative learning activity.
The group work, shared responsibility, taking substantive decisions and self-employment are key elements in collaborative learning. Students will have the opportunity to work in pairs or groups to discuss a problem, to solve a problem or create a product. The teacher has to follow the work of the students. They can work with others outside the classroom, including students from other classes, other experts in the field they are studying.
I never questioned me about these questions the way she suggested.

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These are very good questions for an educator to ask himself/herself whilst planning a learning project. Very often I find myself planning way too much in advance, not leaving enough space for the students to work on. The right kind of problems and questions as well as working opportunities give the students a chance to really meet the questions one by one. I know I have to give the control of the learning process more to the students.

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I start to wonder in which reality these academic poeple live. Do you you all have classrooms where groups are so homogeneous that responsibilities and tasks can equally shared '?classes where all students can give a contribute and be responsibile for the outcome of the product ? ..What can I say? lucky you!

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These 4 questions are very important in collaborative learning. Without them can´t create lesson /project plan

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" Are they working together? Do they have shared responsibility? Are they making substantive decisions?  And is their work interdependent?"
I think these four questions are important because they allow us to check if  the students are really working collaboratively and the level of collaboration that is occurring when this happens.

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The four major questions presented by Professor Deirdre Butler make perfect sense to me because they are very useful at helping designing our collaboration learning activity. I think collaboration and cooperative learning are a good way to increase students knowledge.
Also, I must say these issues made me reflect on how can I improve the design and management of collaborative work with my students and it's a fact working together is different working collaboratively.

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This four questions  are very important and useful for a real collaborative activity. In my point of view the 4 help us find out what collaborative means.

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Collaboration and cooperative learning are a good way to increase students’ Knowledge.  Collaboration is based on questions that a group should answer and these are the same questions that everyone has to ask himself when working with other in different fields and not just at school. So these questions have a greater value due to the indirect benefit to a good working method in life.

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I believe very much in this type of collaborative work, this school year all my activities are being thought through 5 major steps:1.º Discuss an issue (most students like to do brainstorming), 2.º Solve a problem, 3.º make a self and a peer assessment to tracking the group work, 4.º create a product, 5.º make a final self and peer assessment not just about the final product but also about the way the group members worked together

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All the questions make perfect sense to me. I have never thought about them but I hope I design tasks which include all the given questions.

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They are key questions for analysing if we learning activities are collaborative. Of course, they will be very helpful, because one of the problems of collaborative tasks is the correct design of the task.

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The 4 major questions are really important. I always try to answer these question when designing learning activities.

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I think that 4 questions are very useful to help us guide and understand if students are working together and how they are doing that. Some of the times we forget the process and it is the process where they produce knowledge and develop the competences they need to the future

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The 4 major questions presented are:
-Are the students really working together?
-Are they making substantive decisions?
-Are they working interdependently?
- Are they really sharing responsibility?

I've always asked myself weather my students were really working together and sharing responsibility, but I don't think I've ever asked myself weather they were really making  substantive decisions. As for the interdependence I've always found it hard to assess weather they were really  developing a positive interdependence or not..

I think if you plan a collaborative activity with these questions in mind, you are more likely to achieve good results in terms of collaboration. The problem is to find effective ways to foster collaboration, shared responsibility, positive interdependence, effective decision making etc. I mean: these 4 questions deal with the goals we want to achieve, but do not say much about practical strategies to achieve them..

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As other students have already mentioned, these 4 questions are key to tell "collaborative learning" appart from cooperative learning, or working together. I think they will be a great help for examining my own practice when I design learning activities.
It's not neccesary that the students are working together. To promote true collaboration, their work must be interdependent, and mechanisms should be supplied to ensure they share responsability on the product. An important question teachers should remember is to measure well the degree of freedom over substantive decissions (on the content, the process or the product) that is given to the students.

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The issues are really important. For me the most important ones are:
-Are they working together?
-Do they have shared responsability?

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The 4 issues raised by Professor Deirdre Butler are really important when designing a collaborative work. These issues made me reflect on how can I improve the design and management of collaborative work with my students.

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yes that s a usefull video for me. When I plan to make collaboration between my pupils firstly I ask myself that they reaaly need to do that and if they wouldnt make a collaboration what ll happen

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It isn’t easy to manage all these aspects but they are essentally if we want our students to become  collaborative learners; the approach is not just putting some students together and let them negotiate or work because unless they are used to, they can’t have the right skills: they need our help and we have to give them rules and suggestions. Sharing responsibility is the main issue in a working group and students must become aware of it, each member is essential for the others to let the group be ‘alive’.

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The 4 questions addressed by Professor Deirdre Butler have made me reflect on the difference between working together and working collaboratively, are in fact issues that I will reflect on before planning a collaborative learning activity.

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The 4 questions asked by the Prfessor Deidre arevery  useful because managing group work is not easy for a techer. At least this is my experience, I often try to get my studentsw ork collaboratevly, I am aware that the students of present time have to acquire social skills as  well as communicative skills, They have to devolop self confidence in order to express their opinions without  being afraid or feeling ashamed of voicing their thoughts. Unfortunately this is not the normal way to have lessons. In my school most of the classes are teacher oriented, so the students  are not used to working in groups, that is why I have  difficulties in getting them work efficiently without wasting time. In short, I had already had the feeling that I have to learn how to manage group work., but In spite of this feeling I had not thought in such precise way the 4 steps to  make group work efficiently. I mean I had never thought  before  listening to Professor Butler about shared responsability, substansive decisions Actually, I have always  felt the responsability if the content and products were not so good, and it ws always me making desions. Now I Know that Imade mistakes and I have to improve  in reation to these advice .

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The 4 Collaboration Questions

I think that they are really important the 4 issues that are presented by Professor Deirdre Butler   I do not usually use them  consciously or methodically but I hope to start doing it and certainly my work and the students will be more productive.

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The 4 Collaboration Questions:

- Are they working together?

- Do they have shared responsibility?

- Are they making substantive decisions?

- Is their work interdependent?

These are indeed helpful questions when you are designing for collaboration. All of them are present whenever I design a collaborative learning activity.

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If we don't adress these questions, we won't have a collaborative learning activity, so they are extremely important questions. Since some years ago I always lead my students to have different roles in each group trying to make then have shared responsability in the same project otherwise some students tend not to work, whyle some lead all the tasks. That way everyone is incharge of some tasks in the major task.