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I entirely agree that the assessment of students' collaborative learning presents us with a major challenge, nevertheless it should not be given up. I think of collaborative learning as the process which requires to a large extent appropriately organized space, including digital tools, flexible classroom furniture and more interdisciplinary teaching.

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I entirely agree that the assessment of students' collaborative learning presents us with a major challenge, nevertheless it should not be given up. I think of collaborative learning as the process which requires to a large extent appropriately organized space, including digital tools, flexible classroom furniture and more interdisciplinary teaching.

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I completely agree with the 7 benefits António associates to assessing collaborative learning as well as with the challenges he mentions because I also experience the same challenges. I also think collaborative digital tools, the classroom space, interdisciplinary teaching and sharing materials are essential to collaborative work.

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Very interesting video

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Very interesting video. I totally agree with Antonio ideas about collaborative work and the use of digital tools

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I agree with the all benefits to assessing collaborative learning. Creativity, communication, collaborative skills and critical thinking will be acquire by the students. Excelent video.

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It-s all about the process learning to learn and lifelong learning. If teachers pay attention to these two elements and implement their lessons according to these points, you get a good result. I-m trying to work on this, sometimes spending a lot of time and having troubles in making the students understand my goals, but i-m already collecting some results. I use digital tools as popplet.com
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I think that this project presentation is very interesting in both points of view, the student's and teacher's collaboration.I totally agree with the benefits António's refer to assess collaborative learning. The usage of collaborative digital tools is essential for students working together with motivation, this way they get more involved in a meaningful way, so they learn more and better.

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Interesting video. And fro a portuguese teacher. I agree with Antonio and I also agree that the use of digital tools and the reorganization of the classroom space are very important.

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Of course, the main focus while assessing in collaborative learning should be the process more than the product. There is a lot involved in the process of collaborative team work that the teacher should assess and take into account. Many skills adquired and/or developed by the students during the process, may not be shown in the product.
Collaborative learning in my opinion, can be applied in any field: ICT, English, Maths, Social and Natural Studies, P.E..... and, in fact, we´ve seen different examples during this course.
Individual assessment is not an alternative to peer or group assessment. To me, they are all complementary and can be taken into account.
Usually, in the traditional learning, students are assessed in a different way as in collaborative learning. Many tools we have learnt in this course, are difficult to implement in a traditional learning model. In the other hand, traditional learning supports its assessment basicly through written and oral tests.

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The projects are very interesting and I like that they incorporated many ICT tools.

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I think that the Antonio's project presentation is are very interesting in both points of view, the student collaboration and the teacher collaboration.I totally agree with the 7 bentfits he refers to assessing collaborative learning. The usage of collaborative digital tools is essential for students working together because they offer the opportunity to get involved in a meaningful way and help them to learn.

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The projects described by Antonio are very interesting in both points of view, the student collaboration and the teacher collaboration. I agree with the good impact of the use of collaborative digital tools, the reorganizing the classroom space and introducing more interdisciplinary teaching and the sharing of materials amongst teachers as useful tips.

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Last year we saw the beneficials of using web 2.0 tools. Students were eagerto attend the lesson and were in challange to produce something with their peers. Kahoot, quizlet, tackk, blabberize were just a few tools we used last year.

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Evaluating is always the task of all teachers fleeing. However, the evaluation, in the context of collaborative learning, focuses on its agents (students and teachers), on the skills and abilities they acquire.
Thus, taking Antonio's testimony as an example, evaluations focused on skills and competences generate a healthy cycle of learning that is as useful to the student as to the teacher.

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This was an excellent demonstration of an etwinning project. Of course I agree with all benefits identified and of all his concerns about assessment. As I said before, this concerns may be less if students are more accustomed to evaluate their and others learning. I really agree with reorganizing the classroom space and introducing more interdisciplinary teaching and the sharing of materials amongst teachers as a important issues to the success of such activities.

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Antonio's  video is very inspiring. I totally agree with the benefits summarising his project. Using 21st century IT tools for assessing is very helpful. I am also considering video conference in my project and using Kahoot to let students experience a kind of competition and team motivation. i am sure that our teaching should use any methods whose aim is improving students skills at any subject which can be also helpful in their future careers.

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I think that the project that Antonio has developed with his students works and I agree with the 7 benefits to assessing collaborative learning. Students will develop the skills of the 21st century

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The projects presented by António are meaningful examples of collaborative work involving teachers and students. Them being projects developed in classes of a Multimedia Professionalizing Course, I think some of the constraints felt by the majority of teachers – time and obsession for the fulfillment of curricula content ministration, due to external assessment pressure – aren’t present in the same way. I think that, similar to what happens at my school, the classroom of these professionalizing classes has an arrangement that facilitates collaborative work; the students also possess, the majority of them, a higher level of digital competencies, as well as the appropriate technological means in the classroom.

The implementation of collaborative work poses numerous difficulties that should be met and resolved, taking into consideration each school’s reality.

I think António’s presentation contributed effectively to the enrichment of the meaning of (to enrich the meaning of collaborative work.

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The 7 benefits are really great and I agree with those in order to assessing collaboartice learning. Work with digital resources will be a challenge and students can take the benefit.

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The 7 benefits Antonio associates to assessing collaborative learning in e-Twinning projects, which are :
1. The learner-centered process
2. The students' involvement in the evaluation tasks
3. The  students' responsibility and motivation in the learning process
4. The students' self-reflection and argumentation
5. The fact that students socially learn from each other
6. The digital literacy through the use of digital web 2.0 tools
7. The development of skills of the 21st century.
I like very much Antonio presentation and I think collaborative tools are very useful to help students and teacher. In my case I have already used some digital tools in my classes, for example, Kahoot, Socrative, Padlet, Doodle, Prezi...

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António's presentation is  really great. I agree with the 7 benefits to assessing collaborative learning. Creativity, communication, collaborative skills and critical thinking will be acquire by the students. The change of attitude and work dynamics with digital resources are a challenge. Digital tools are interesting for students and the teacher's must benefit from it.

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I agrree with Antonio. Collaborative learning promotes student's involvement, responsibility,  argumentation , digital  literacy, 21st century skills, it is student center learning. web2.0 are necessary for the set up of a collaborative activity. A teacher's attempt to do collaborative learning with the traditional way without technology could end up to a disaster. lack of classroom management, incapability of assessing collaborative work could be some of the causes of the disaster.

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I really like Antonio's projects and the way he assessed student's collaboration. I agree with the 7 benefits Antonio associates to assessing collaborative learning. I experienced similar challenges in assessing collaborative learning, and my main problems in my classroom are related with: reorganizing the classroom space to introduce more collaboration-friendly dynamics in the classroom and sometimes the use of digital tools in classroom. It's easier to a ICT teacher implementing those digital tools because their are a lot of computers in classroom to be used. In my classes I only have one computer, so most of the time I have to do assessment using written questionnaires in paper or using team up as a task to be continued at home by students.

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The projects mentioned by Antonio were great and as far as I can see, their students are really lucky to have such teachers working hard for them. From teacher collaboration, e-twinning projects are great if you do not have collaborative teachers in your own school. You also do not have to be a prisoner in your country, you can contact with teachers from different parts of Europe, which makes learning environment more creative and more energetic. I also agree with the 7 benefits Antonio attributes to collaborative learning in these kinds of e-Twinning projects, which are :
1. The learner-centered process
2. The students' involvement in the evaluation tasks
3. The  students' responsibility and motivation in the learning process
4. The students' self-reflection and argumentation
5. The fact that students socially learn from each other
6. The digital literacy through the use of digital web 2.0 tools
7. The development of skills of the 21st century.

The challenges Antonio mentions are the same ones which we everyday face in our teaching process:
1. different group dynamics, since it requires of the students a positive attitude and receptivity to their involvement in the evaluation
2. the change of attitude and work dynamics
3. the most important of all, is the time available to prepare and apply collaborative assessment in the classroom .

Possible solutions can be: the good planning of the activities and the criteria of assessment, the positive classroom environment, the taking into account the students' interests and the creative use of web 2 tools. I totally agree with Antonio’s solutions mentioned in the video. However, in our school we do not have such a chance to work with our own colleagues collaboratively to find solutions for these problems. I am all alone, which makes me infertile in my teaching process. So, I try to do my best to make novelties in my teaching process and to be a good example for my colleagues. I believe that applying such kind of Projects in all school requires commonality between teachers. I also don’t have a chance to reorganize my classroom for collaborative learning environment because I am sharing my classroom with other teachers and also as teachers we do not have a budget to do so from our school managements, as it is a public school. As for interdisciplinary teaching, it is urgent and useful for all teachers who take part in learning process of the same class, but some teachers are from the old school and they are not open to new ideas. They also resist them, which makes me discouraged sometimes. In such an environment, I am fighting for my life Anyway, for the last idea about sharing of materials amongst teachers of course facilitates collaborative teaching and learning. Because if the students and teachers use the same rubrics for the same activity, it will save time for teachers. Also, it should be prepared according to the curriculum and applied to all classes and all disciplines. As a result, I am happy being here and learning with you :) THANKS A LOT

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I didn't really understand from the presentation what was the aim of students collaboration on the 2 projects on Augumented Reality. I fully agree that it is useful to develop assessment instruments prior to the implementation of the project. It would be useful to include in the presentation rubric examples (e.g. - what does it mean that student's creativity is of level 3?)
Related to the main challenges Antonio points out, I wouldn't consider group dynamics as main challenge in the assessment of collaborative work (but probably we don't have the same understanding of the  'group dynamics' concept).

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Group Dynamics Defined

June is part of a support group for stay-at-home moms. She confides in the group her guilt over yelling at her toddler the night before when he wouldn't pick up his toys. One of the moms provides her with support and encouragement. The other two moms don't respond and look apathetic. June feels judged by these other two moms and feels hurt. She regrets sharing her story and sits in silence the rest of the group.

The above story illustrates several important group dynamics which impact each group member and the group as a whole. Every member of society participates in groups through work, military, school, social groups, sports, and more. Understanding how groups interact and what might cause problems in a group, can help us to improve group performance, communication, and cohesiveness. This lesson will define group dynamics and review the theory behind understanding these dynamics by exploring important factors affecting processes within a group.

Group dynamics are the processes that occur between group members. These dynamics are affected by each member's internal thoughts and feelings, their expressed thoughts and feelings, their nonverbal communication, and the relationship between group members. Group dynamics helps you understand how each person's actions make sense in the context of the group.

In the above story, there are several group dynamics at play. June's own insecurities about her parenting have led to her interpreting two group member's silence as judgment. In response to their apathetic reaction, she feels more guilt and withdraws. This likely impacts the dynamics of the group and whether other group members withdraw or share. Unbeknownst to her, the two other moms aren't apathetic. They are dwelling on their own parenting guilt over mistakes they have made, which was triggered by June's disclosure.

Group Dynamics Theory

Systems theory describes how individuals behave within a system. As groups are considered systems, systems theory helps us begin to understand group dynamics. Systems theory involves understanding that group dynamics is a more complex process than just summing up the individual characteristics of each group member. Instead, group dynamics is best understood by combining the characteristics of each group member, how each group member's actions affect the group, and how these group interactions affect each group member. This creates a cyclical and reciprocal feedback loop which simultaneously impacts all group members and all group members' relationships.

Factors Affecting Group Dynamics

According to systems theory, there are a few important factors which affect group dynamics. Let's take a look at them.

Member Power

Often, one or more group members will hold more power within the group by being influential in some regard. They might be more assertive with their opinion, exhibit leadership characteristics, or have a charismatic personality.

Example: Rachel tends to be a more outspoken member of the treatment team. Over time, the team has come to rely on Rachel to make important decisions. Because Rachel has a strong role in team decision-making, she holds significant power in the group.

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June is part of a support group for stay-at-home moms. She confides in the group her guilt over yelling at her toddler the night before when he wouldn't pick up his toys. One of the moms provides her with support and encouragement. The other two moms don't respond and look apathetic.

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In my opinion, the activities described by Antonio are fantastic and enriching for teachers and students. I fully agree with the seven benefits associated with collaborative learning and also face the challenges he mentions: group dynamics, which has several constraints, team management, which always poses some questions, and the time required to prepare and implement assessment of collaborative learning in the classroom. Time can be an embarrassment difficult to overcome and digital tools can greatly facilitate the work of teachers and students themselves, helping to overcome many constraints. I use Google Drive, Socrative and Padlet and found these facilities.

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Great example António. Thanks for sharing!!!! The 7 collaborative assessment tips are great they cover all the 21st century skills: Learning Skills, Literacy Skills and Life Skills as a result of a collaborative work.
I also like the assessment sheet it is easy to fill in the classroom and has everything that is important to assess on a collaborative activity.

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Interdisciplinary teaching is a challenge, the dynamics created with digital resources are a good example of this presentation. I wish I had a good performance of TI, but one of the important factors in this collaborative learning is the interdependence of knowledge and skills. Congratulations António, I am deeply in agreement with the 7 benefits of collaborative learning.

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Antonio's presentation is really great. I totally agree with the 7 bentfits he refers to assessing collaborative learning. The usage of collaborative digital tools is essential for students working together because they offer the opportunity to get involved in a meaningful way and help them to learn.

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Collaboration between students is very important, but collaboration between teachers (although more difficult) is even more important. Etwinning gives the amazing opportunity to collaborate and my teaching practice has improved due to engagement and collaboration in eTwinning projects.
The seven benefits of collaborative learning are very important, but the one I find more important is "development of 21st century skills" specially: leadership, teamwork, collaboration and cooperation.
The challenge in my opinion is time management: cooperative learning requires more time.
About digital tools I cannot immagine collaborative learning without ICT

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The described projects seem to be very good. I believe there are many benefits in collaborative learning, such as:

- Students get more Involved in the tasks;

- Students are responsible and motivated in their learning process;
- Student-centered process;
- Self-reflection possibilioty for students;
- Development of skills and competences;
- Development of digital skills.

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I agree with António, in everything he said. It´s very important the use of digital tools in colaboartive work.
The etwining projects are great for collaborative work.
Great work from Portugal, thanks a lot.

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3.5 An ICT teacher’s experience of assessing students’ collaborative learning
I agree with antonio, he have done a great work.

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I agree with Antonio concerning the seventh benefits of collaborative learning:

The students will acquire more creativity, will improve their communication and collaborative skills,

and their critical thinking. They will assume, in this context, personal and social responsability. The web 2.0. environments are particulary apppropriate to facilitate collaboration and sharing and consequently the students, selecting, accessing and managing these resources, will improve digital skills.

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I agree with Antonio about the seven benefits of collaborative learning. For me, the biggest challenge mentioned is the management of the time needed to prepare and implement the collaborative work and the implementation of its evaluation because I am a teacher of a discipline with a huge curriculum and external evaluation in the end. I believe that space reorganization can improve student interactions but the use of collaborative digital tools and the sharing of materials among teachers are much more important. In my practice I have already used some digital tools in my classes (Kahoot, Socrative, Padlet, Class Dojo and others), in the context of the ordinary  classroom, laboratory and future classroom lab. Students get involved much more.

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To deal with each question one by one sequentially;
1. The projects mentioned by Antonio attract those teachers who would like to cooperate or collaborate among themselves but somehow not being able to carry out cooperation and collaboration. The mechanism held by the project organizers seems to remove the distance barriers in front of collaboration among both teacher groups and students groups.
2.I totally agree with 7 benefits stated by Antonio.
-Student centered process refers to individual performance and practices
-Student involvement refers to learner initiative or autonomy
-Responsibility and motivation stand for willingness for group collaboration
-Self-reflection refers to individual assessment
-Social learning is the very atmosphere of collaboration
-Digital literady is just keeping updated with global trends and requirements
-Century skills and competences refer to trendy demands of the whole community
2. I don't think the mentioned challenges make the projects deteriorated for the reason that Antonio has already brought some solutions using applications like teamup etc. As for my experiences, I do not face these challenges if i assign tasks require students using ICT tools which enable them not to need to meet onsite.

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Antonio is to be congratulated for his work on projects. I agree with him. To achieve the seventh benefit:  creativity (initiative, entrepreneurship), communication skills (traditional and digital), collaboration (collaborative work on platforms / digital), digital skills (selecting, accessing and managing resources Critical thinking (reasoning, analyzing, judging, arguing) and personal and social responsibility (self-knowledge, self-evaluation),
we need develop first of all, the collaborative learning:

It is a student centered process,

Promotes students involvement in the assessment tasks,

Promotes students responsibility and motivation towards the learning process,

Promotes self-reflection and students argumentation,

Students can learn socially from each other,

Promotes digital literacy through the use of digital web 2.0 applications.

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1.  I think thatAntonio was lucky because he  had a good opportunity to work within E-Twinning; indeed,  when you are involved in this kind of project there several advantages which usually are not possible in one’s school for example he coud work in collaboration with colleagues in a multidisciplianry way which  qualifies  the students learning experience. It was a good idea to provide students with the rubrics and checklists before the implementation of the project. Indeed, this is a good start as the students become aware of what they are going to experience ; the students get more involved when they are given information and criteria in advance. I agree with the seven benefits listed by Antonio for the assessment of collaborative learning; as for the challenges he mentions  of course, I have to face with the same matters; in particular  time  management is  the most difficult for me  because  it is so short in the class and there are so many tasks to carry out for a teacher that  you may risk  not to have enough time  to carry out all these activities;It is true that Digital tools help both teachers and students to implement the work as the students and teachers can be active and interactive even beyond the class, but this is feasable  only when everyone at home has the connection to work on line. At least according to my experience, it happens that  some students have the opportunity to work at home by using the digital tools, but some others cannot work at home because  they do not have the necessary equipment , i.e. a PC or laptop and internet. Therefore I have to carry out all the activities at school in order to avoid discrimmination among students  ZZvssBjJyWXr�1P��

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I absolutely agree with Antonio! These 7 benefits are the reasons I started collaborative teaching two years ago. I extended my experience to my colleague who now is doing the same with her subjects. Collaboration is essential among students but also among teachers!

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The eTwinning projects presented by Antonio João Lopes are very interesting for the issues proposed for the activities carried out and for the use of computer tools that make them very attractive and closer to the world of young people. I agree with the 7 benefits that the professor associates with the assessment of a collaborative learning and I agree on the main challenges to be faced in such a learning scenary.
I fully agree with the solutions proposed by the teacher to solve the great challenges in the evaluation of a collaborative learning. Iunderline, unfortunately, the fact that the reorganization of the class in a more functional way to cooperative work is often problematic, due to factors relating to small time available for the performance of activities and the lack of a school furniture suitable to undergo the processing necessary for the creation of an appropriate work context. In addition, I highlight that interdisciplinarity is crucial in the organization of cooperative work.

With regard to the questions for the final reflection, here are my answers:

1 - In situations of collaborative learning, student achievements should be assessed in a different way than the traditional .

2 -The way by which we assess collaborative learning should not be independent from the curriculum, it  should be appropriate to the age of student and applied to all disciplines and classes.

3 - In a collaborative learning environment, we could give to the individual assessment a lower weight than the group evaluation.

4 - In collaborative learning environments I would give greater importance to the process rather than the final product.

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(Finally I was able to post on a course padlet ;-) ! My learning diary: https://padlet.com/vmnf/t15kcywjqs93 )
eTwinning is a great platform to develop international projects with other teachers and setup a collaborative workspace for their students. I've been engaged on a teachers training course so other teachers will become eTwinners. So we can consider that in Portugal there is investment, by public ministry, towards motivating teachers to engage in eTwinning projects.
Yes, I agree. They can easily be used as a reference.
Collaborative work poses a lot of challenges. One I am most confronted is not having a classroom big enough to create multi-purpose spaces on it. I will keep struggling so I can achieve this since I think this would increase student motivation also. Also the use of flexible floor planning maybe with other kind of tables that would allow students to be more face-to-face.
The one I mostly agree is the organizing the classroom space. This imposes challenged when you have other teachers also teaching on same room but keep using traditional ways of teaching. Also interdisciplinary teaching cannot be easily achieved due to lack of teachers schedule control. This would be easier if teachers working together could have time on their schedules to be together and plan such activities.

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Great example from Portugal: congratulations António Lopes. I particularly like your solutions:
1 - Assessing collaborative learning requires regular communication between peers and peers and teachers.
2 - Digital tools can be used to support teacher’s planning activities. The use of collaborative digital tools enables teachers to efficiently observe student groups and deliver feedback. Digital tools can also support students to publish and share their assessments.
3 - Reorganizing the classroom space can introduce more collaboration-friendly dynamics in the classroom.
4 - More interdisciplinary teaching and sharing of materials amongst teachers also facilitates collaborative teaching.
Thanks!

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eTwinning projects, and then  collaborative learning,  give to school real opportunities to innovate for organisations teachers and learners, then I think that they  can  be applied to all disciplines and classes.

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I agree with Antonio`s 7 benefits.
And digital tools can be used to support teacher planning activities

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I really appreciated the checklist with the creativite rubrics, autonomy and so on. Presenting these items from the beginning of the project is a very good idea and I will apply it now.

The presentation of the advantages and the challenges is very complete and it helps us to identify the problems.

I absolutely agree with his proposals, especially with regard to numerical tools and interdisciplinary teaching. In the last few years, a pedagogical team has been formed with my colleagues from other disciplines in various projects, and our work is characterized by an added value

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The projects discussed by Antonio are focused on the student's autonomous work, being part of his process. In relation to the seven benefits, we find it quite positive because they are important tools to evaluate collaborative learning and are enriching in student learning.
It is important to know how to manage groups, time and implement digital tools. This requires reorganizing classroom space and disciplines so that learning is more interdisciplinary and shared.

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I agree with the 7 benefits described in the video by António. I participated in  the Itec project  and my students where at the center of project.  The students developed  autonomy, responsability, communication  and argumentation. Very important regular communication and the digital tools  can be use to support teach planning.

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I agree with the 7 benefits described by Antonio.
I like the web 2.0 tools he used in the different scenarios which showed that he simply didn't use the tools for the tools' sake but he used the tools as a means of communication, collaboration etc.

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I think that 7 benefits are very important of collaborative learning assessment:

1 – It is a student-centered process

2 - Promotes students involvement in the assessment tasks

3 – Promotes students responsibility and motivation towards the learning process

4 – Promotes self-reflection and students argumentation

5 - Students can learn socially from each other

6 – Promotes digital literacy through the use of digital web 2.0 applications

7 – Promotes development of 21st century skills and competences.
For this teacher the main challenges of collaborative learning are:
1 - Changing role of the teacher/students in the classroom.
2 - Group dynamics: students must have a positive attitude and receptivity towards their involvement in the assessment
3 - Group assessment versus individual assessment
4 - Management of teams/groups of students so that everyone participates and collaborates in the activities
5 - Time available to prepare and apply assessment of collaboration in the classroom

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Antonio shared some interesting ideas and projects. The idea of having students self-assessing their own collaboration is important because it gives them the conscience of whats really inportant in order to achieve both individual as group goals.

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I have the first active project in the Tweenspace.
Actually thanks to it I found out about this course. I'm impressed how many possibilities teachers have to work creativily. Of course these things need much time on every level including the assessment. Digital tools are interesting for students and we must benefit from it.

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I think the projects are interesting, as well the way he work and assess them. The fact that each student makes his portfolio solves some assessment's problems of the student's individual contribution in the project. However, carrying out the group project and still creating an individual portfolio requires much more time for a project... The online collaborative tools are a great help in the collaborative work between students and also between teachers. I will consider using more online collaborative tools in the projects that i do with my students.

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The questions of the self-assessment test suggested by the colleague seem to me too vague to be carried out by the students ("autonomy", "cooperation"). The articulation between individual and group evaluation and focus on the process are problems to solve...

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Thanks Antonio Lopes for sharing your experience on collaborative learning assessment and the mentioning of TeamUp. I am still learning to use digital tools and am always happy to read about programmes that seem to work. Getting around to actually use them is, timewise, an ongoingbattle for me.
I agree with the 7 benefits Antonio mentions. However, setting up the first project complete with rubrics and assessment criteria involves a lot of work, especially when you work in an environment where collaborative learning is new and where colleagues are not always open-minded and supportive about new developments.
Reading that it is possible gives me new energy to try again.

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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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Antonio's presentation is fantastic, it's a shame he does not teach at our school. We have much to learn. As we have already mentioned, we have never worked like this. Our opinion is given only on the basis of what we are learning and not from experience. The benefits referred to by it make perfect sense with regard to collaborative work. Regarding challenges we also face them we agree with António are also challenges for us even though our work is not collaborative.  It seems to us that using digital tools is a prized advantage in the evaluative process. 0.0,��5���

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I consider the proposal of Antonio, is very good but needs digital skills, technology and spaces suitable instruments, which often lacking in our schools.

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I agree with the relevance of the seven benefits and challenges highlighted by the speaker.
More interdisciplinary teaching and sharing of materials among teachers also facilitate collaborative teaching.
Digital tools can be used to support teacher planning activities.

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I agree with what António outlines in the video. I believe that information technology helps effectively the assessment process.

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I agree with the benefits and challenges highlighted by António Lopes.
I also consider that the use of digital tools are important as facilitating tools in collaboration and evaluation of collaborative learning.

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I think the difficulty is to have space and time to do it... Of course the 7 benefits that Antonio presents are important but we have to understand that most teachers don´t have digital skills so for them it will be a little bit more difficult to sharing materials or use new digital tools. In my school I am trying to change the way teachers see the new collaboration tolls, for example, I send them collaborative documents for them to fill and I give them instructions how to do it.

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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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I agree with Antonino's 7 benefits associated with the assessment of collaborative learning and the challenges it faced. However, I still do not have much knowledge about some digital tools to apply with my students.

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I really enjoyed this presentation. It summarises many aspects that I agree with. Personally, I have two aspects that concern me a lot. One, the redesign of our classroom space. Sometimes the classes are so small in space and so big in number of students that difficults the rearangment of the class for group work. Other problem I see is that our schools (at least in Portugal) are very obcessed with the final exams and, therefore, we spend to litle time preparing students with the competences they need for real life, and too much time preparing for the exams.

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Our colleague clearly points out the benefits associated to collaborative work.  In fact, this type of work can and should be developed from an early age and in all subjects.

I believe that we still have a long way to go in order to develop collaborative projects and we need to start changing the way teachers collaborate in order to effectively implement this type of tasks in our classes and understand the benefits and potential of collaborative learning.

As for the challenges Antonio mentions, I would like to emphasize the changing of the role for teachers and students, as teachers need to learn to give more responsibility to students for their own learning and students need to take this increased responsibility and adjust to group work.

I will surely explore some of the digital tools mentioned as I am not familiar with all of them.

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I believe that the final evaluation should occur on the completion of the project, but it will happen, before, a teacher - an observer in this case should scrupulously observe student work on assignments and show them the right OR Better molds and Methods Solutions. Then, through observation should refer to the effects do - if it was a tip, directing - to WHAT IS THE EFFECT, which stems from it. Then we can judge, because we know how much a student has used our help and education, which received. Njtrudniejsze remains, however, to assess case by case basis within the Group. I think you can ask students to self-esteem and verify thus our observations.

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I think Antonio's project very interesting and I agree with the benefits that have been assigned to the assessment of collaborative learning.
The different tools presented, like Lino, Padlet, Kahoot, Teamup and others are really important for these collaborative projects, but they need time to assimilate the change.
I think the biggest challenge in the assessment of collaborative learning is the group dynamic: students must have a positive and receptive attitude towards their involvement in the assessment.
I fully agree with the solutions proposed by António to solve the major challenges of assessment collaborative learning.

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The 7 benefits are very rightly associated to assessing collaborative learning. The group dynamics, team management and the needed time to prepare and implement the assessment of collaborative learning in the classroom are in fact challenges we all face when engaging in such a learning scenario. Reorganizing the classroom takes precious time we sometimes cannot afford to lose. Ideally the classroom should be in such a way we wouldn’t need to constantly change it. But that’s only possible when each class has its classroom and that’s not how schools are usually organised in Portugal. Interdisciplinary teaching is a very valuable tip, and collaborative work among teachers also. Teachers promote it among students but seldom work that way themselves.

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I completely agree with Antonio and with the 7 benefits he associates to assessing collaborative learning. I agree that using digital tools can help a lot in collaborative work, but it is necessary for all stakeholders to be able to use these tools well.

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I totally agree with Antonio. Also in my opinion collaborative learning needs new tools to assess students' progress; time to prepare and implement assessment is important, with transmissive teaching the assessment is fast. New setting of classrooms is fundamental, but it 's not easy  to do this!!
I think that if I ask to students to work in group, also teachers have to work in group in a interdisciplinary way and sharing materials each other ;))

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The first thing I would underline is that no collaborative learning is possible, if the learning enviroments keep beeing traditional classrooms. Antonio highlights that digital tools are useful, in other words necessary, to enable the students move across the Augmented reality. I have also two previous experiences od eTwinning projects, but when we started them, my only collaborative learning idea was about task based didactics of languages. Now I can agree with Antonio about introducing a cross curricular use of collaborative learning. If students use to learn in a transmissive way a certain subject, they will see difficult adapting theirselves to a new scenario!

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I agree with the 7 benefits Antonio associates to assessing collaborative learning and with the challenges he faced. However our schools are not prepared to use digital tools and teachers must learn how ti use it.
In what concerns etwinning experiences I have no experience.This year I hope to participate, for the first time, in a Christmas Activity suggested by an etwinner (if I can call her this way). Collaborative teaching and learning is taking the first steps in my school.

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I agree with António's projets and opinions. I believe that collaborative learning can be applied in all disciplines and at all ages, as well as evaluation, but everything has to take into account age and curriculum. In the whole process, in my opinion, the most important is the process itself and the evolution along it. I also believe that information technology helps immensely throughout this process.

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The project assessment introduced by Antonio is another inspiration and good practice for me. I agree that re-setting the classroom layout can enhance collaboration, a simple rubric makes assessment easier. I think we can assess both the process and the product of a collaboration activity as soon as we include in the rubric. As I see it, when assessing a group and an individual, there should be 2 rubrics used for this, slightly different in their categories.

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I found the video really stimulating especially because of he gave us a list of questions on which it is necessary to reflect on while engaging in an assessing collaborative learning

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I think that Antonio`s project  is a quite groundbreaking .I agree  with the 7 benefits associated  to assessing collaborative learning. To make a collaborative learning is essential the teachers to reorganize the classroom space, to use collaborative digital tools and Interdisciplinary teaching.

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The projects described by Antonio are great and I agree with the 7 benefits that are associated with collaborative learning, such as:

- It is a student-centered process;

- Promotes students Involvement in the assessment tasks;

- Promotes student's responsibility and motivation towards the learning process;
- Promotes self-reflection and students argumentation;
- Promotes development of 21st century skills and competences.
Concerning the challenges that Antonio describes, there are two that I often experience in my classes:

- Management of teams / groups of students so everyone participates and

collaborates in the activities
- Time available to prepare and apply assessment of collaboration in the class.
I also consider that digital tools can be very useful.

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I agree with António about the project. I know kahoot and I use identical questionnaire and gridlines with my students when they work in groups. I have not participate in projects "etwinning" until yet.

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I agree with Antonio that collaborative projects are the right way for students to develop the so-called 21st century skills, which are clearly specified in the 7 benefits Antonio describes associated to the collaborative work developed by this students during the projects. Concerning the challenges that Antonio describes, I also agree, since they are common to all teaching activities in particular to the collaborative ones, due to the requirement of engagement and receptivity by the students and to the need to manage the teams and their dynamics in an efficient and constructive way. However, the time it takes to prepare and implement collaborative activities for our students and focused on our students is something that needs to be taken into account when a school decides to embrace this new way of teaching/learning, especially if interdisciplinary activities are to be planned and carried out. This requires a substantial degree of commonality between the schedules of the intervening teachers, which is something very difficult to achieve. In the context of collaborative work, it is clear that the use of digital tools is a must since these tools make it much easier for the teacher to plan the activities and to follow the progress of students along the activity as well as for the students to record and publish their work/assessments.

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I totally agree with the seven benefits being clearly illustrated as far as assessing collaborative learning activities are concerned.
Well done Antonio! Thank alot! Great job! I will communicate it to my colleagues at school and I'm sure a fruitful and very productive outcome will spring out among us from our discussions!

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I agree with the 7 benefits to assessing collaborative learning. I participate on the etwinning learning event. I think that this project is very important tool for implementing collaboration.

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It's a great job and Antonio did i nteresting projects involving students in the tasks and also in their assessment. Students should appreciate a lot the work that they did. But we can anticipate some issues concerning time. Planification and implementation of these kind of work  takes time...lots of time. Most of the teachers aren't able to spend so much time, but, if we practise, we spend less time on planification and all becomes more easy.Tips that Antonio gives are good tips, we  reorganize classroom space almost everyclasses and, children help on that task. It's nice to see them arriving class and starting to change the  place of chairs and tables...if they are used they do it  with good will.

We  try also to introduce digital tools and we believe in sharing material. But we need also to increase  teachers digital skills. That’s why courses like this one are very useful and important.

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I enjoyed the projects shared. It is important that we prepare the children for the jobs of the future, so having them engage in Investigative collaborative learning activities is a key part of this. I think there is great value in using a wide mix of teaching and learning approaches but I am engaged in using collaborative learning more and more these days. He asks a key question as to which part of the process you asses: the process or the product. In short, I think assessing both has value. When sharing the assessment/success criteria rubric with the students there,should be elements of assessment(peer, self and teacher) for both.

The teacher needs to be careful however of not making the assessment so broad that it becomes unclear as to what is being assessed.

Thanks for your contribution to the course as, with each week, I am more inspired to do more!

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In this respect, Antonio is defining the project with consistency. However, I can not apply these tools because I do not have an internet capable of giving answers to all projects, and I have ninety minutes a week making it impossible to apply all these tools.

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I agree with all your point of view, as long we achieve to promote that kind of interaction between students: by being persistent with our goal and in some cases promote a change of mentality about our role as a teacher.

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I appreciated a lot! Just two considerations:
1. the 7 benefits are not equal, namely on the same level. I do think that self-reflection and argumentation are fundamental (n.4) and
2.reorganizing classroom setting is very very important!!! Students must have space, look to each other, exchange materials and phisically share and recognise themselves part of a team!

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I believe António has a working environment (school, classrooms, colleagues, etc.) different from many teachers participating in this course. In the room where I teach more I can't move tables and chairs...I agree with most of what he said. He is organized, he uses interesting tools and strategies. I'm going to use TeamUp for sure! We need to organize ourselves as collaborative teachers first and then we'll be better working and assessing collaboratively and collaborative learning. I want to become experienced in doing that. His tips helped. To use Web 2.0 tools we need to share, post, comment...that's the world as we know it today. Lastly, I think both process and product are important - but the road can lead you to different destinations. I would focus more on the road...I'm sure students wouldn't then get lost!

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I agree with Antonio about the 7 benefits to assessing collaborative learning. I also use the web 2.0 application kahoot for formative assessment.

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I definitely and totally agree with the 7 benefits illustrated by Antonio.
Reorganizing the classroom space is in my school a lost battle. We tried once, but the classrooms are too small for the number of our students.

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I'm marvelled by this experience. Didn't know about etwinning (already enroled in the project) and found some of the tools showned very useful (I'm exploring TeamUP right now). I would love to know more about the work process developed within each group to better understand the dynamics between students and their own contributions towards the final product. I agree with the benefits presented by Antonio, and I think it's crucial to let the students know, right from the start, exactly how they'll be assessed and what tools used to do it (self, peer, group and/or individual). I also asked the question about what should be the main focus of the assessment done, the process or the product - I think we should assess first the process until the students fully understand the work flow and the rules applied, only then should we turn the focus on the final product. It's my understanding that the product will be better when the collaborative process is at its best. In Portugal, managing time is a big problem, since the curriculums are very extensive leaving little time for these kinds of projects. There is a current effort, by our Education Ministery, to review the extension of the courses programs, hopefully allowing time for more and better interactions inside the classes. As an alternative, interdisciplinary work could be a helpful solution, but we would need more availability amongst our peers and formation to allow this possibility to happen more frequently.

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I agree with Antonio. I think we need to build collaborative learning skills. We can assess skills and attitudes in some cases when we are building theses skills with the students and not focus on the knowledge. Then in some collaborative learning activities we might put greater emphasis not he knowledge. I think we cannot underestimate the power of technology to aid collaboration. We tend to learn in a very private way, in our collaborative learning group when we build trust we then can learn in a semi private way. We can get peer feedback from our group. When we share this learning in public in a padlet or on a platform we now make our learning public and we learn from peer's feedback and from seeing peer's work. This is also true for teachers in planning for teaching, learning and assessment.

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Thank a lot, António! It's great to have a Portuguese example here :) Congratulations.

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Thanks a lot for the useful video. Process and outcomes are equally important but according to the age and abilities of the students it is up to the teachers, in my own opinion, to give more importance to the first rather than to the second. As long as all the students work in a collaborative way within the group, we may even give credit to the group who has achieved less compared to the other. The focus and the strength of the group work is the collaborative contribution of each member to group itself.

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This is a very useful video. I thinlk that ICT tools  give more possibility for teachers to  assess and involve students in the assessing process.
Antonio poses the same difficulties found by the previous teacher : how to assess individual performance vs group performamce, because this is what the school ask us.
My school asks for rubrics which have to be shared by all teachers in every department.

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I think actually Antonio is describing two different steps of his process towards a better assessment of the group work. The first rubric is quite poor and uses only a few descriptors, while the second year his experience takes him to evaluate more precisely the dynamics inside the groups. Of course all this is not easy and not granted. Teachers must try and error to learn and you can use somebody else's experience as an example, but really you have to find your personal path inside this road. An all the classes ar not the same, so, what is good for a class might not be good for another one.

I have seen Team-Up in many MOOCs but I never used it in a real project... I think it it time to begin to use it... It might be really helpful if we want to move towards a more accurate evaluation of students while they are involved in an eTwinning project. Now probably the time is ready to change and start using the ICT tools both in the classroom (BYOD) and at home.

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The use of web tools 2.0 is very interesting.
The avaluation that the students have to do will help themto learn better.
António tips are very useful.

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Very interesting project material. I agree that Twinning projects can change the whole perspective of teaching. Very useful reflections on classroom spaces

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Great experience,  nice benefits. Thanks for sharing the good practice! :)

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Etwinning projects are a good way that shows collaborative learning.Web 2.0 tools helps to facilitate cooperation and as the Portuguese teacher mentioned students are in the center of their learning process, they take responsibilities and they are motivated to develop projects learning socially.I agree with the challenges and the questions he has stated here.

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The etwinning portal is a space where teachers can communicate, collaborate, develop projects, share and exchange experiences with other European educational agents through tools and applications in the area of information and communication technologies. It provides them with a secure online environment, ideas for projects, advice and support for working with peers and their students across Europe. It also gives them the opportunity to share their teaching resources and highlight their best practices.

The projects described by Antonio are innovative and very rich. They’ve allowed students to develop many skills like creativity, communication skills, collaboration, digital skills, critical thinking and personal and social responsibility.

I agree with António research shows that educational experiences that are active, social, contextual, engaging, and student-owned lead to deeper learning. The benefits of collaborative learning include:

- Development of higher-level thinking, oral communication, self-management, and leadership skills.

- Promotion of student-faculty interaction.

- Increase in student retention, self-esteem, and responsibility.

- Exposure to and an increase in understanding of diverse perspectives.

- Preparation for real life social and employment situations.

Some strategies to help ensure productive group dynamics are:

- Provide opportunities for students to develop rapport and group cohesion through icebreakers, team-building, and reflection exercises.

- Give students time to create a group work plan allowing them to plan for deadlines, and divvy up responsibilities.

- Have students establish ground rules. Students can create a contract for each member to sign; this contract can include agreed-upon penalties for those who fail to fulfill obligations.

- Assign roles to members of each group and change the roles periodically. For example, one student can be the coordinator, another the note-taker, another the summarizer, and another the planner of next steps.

- Allow students to rate each other’s quality and quantity of contributions. Use these evaluations when giving individual grades, but do not let it weigh heavily on a students’ final grade. Communicate clearly how peer assessment will influence grades.

- Check in with groups intermittently, but encourage students to handle their own issues before coming to you for assistance.

The teacher need time to prepare and implement assessment of collaborative learning in the classroom. These are some challenges I also face in my classes.

The use of collaborative digital tools, reorganizing the classroom space and introducing more interdisciplinary teaching and the sharing of materials amongst teachers as useful tips. I use google dooc, padlet, mindmeister, prezi, ….