Standard 3:
b. Collaborate with students, peers, parents, and community members using digit tools and resources to support student success and innovation.
If teachers used Story bird they could complete the teaching standard 3. In our case, the aspiring teachers teamed up with a 5th grade class. We had a partner and we worked together to create a story. We used story bird to do that. It is a neat way to find cool pictures and add words. You can see how creative the kids are and also you can add your creativity. You have to be able to work together with them or else your story will not turn out right or even get finished. It is awesome to see the different ideas that some of the 5th graders came up with.
Why is it important for teachers to engage students in collaborative learning?
I believe that it is extremely important to innovate technology into the classrooms. There are so many jobs and everyday activities that require us to use technology and do different things with it. A lot of jobs are now moving to computers. You have to work together with someone through technology to complete a project. Teaching kids at an early age to work together and use technology will only help them in the future. "Employers rank teamwork/collaboration as one of the three most important applied skills" ("Technology enhanced collaborative," ). In the future, I believe that jobs are going to become more dependent on technology and teamwork. If we want kids to be successful we need to start bringing more technology into the classroom and teaching them how to work with people. They need to be able to put themselves into someone else's prospective and understand that people work and think in different ways.
How will Edmodo, Skype, or Storybird help teachers?
These are all great websites to use to help teachers innovate collaborative online learning into the classroom. Skype you can connect to different classrooms or even different schools around the country. You can have your students chat with them and even assign a project with a partner. They can talk through Skype and work together to complete the assignment. Edmodo is like Facebook for school. You can have your students post things on the page and get or receive feedback from other classrooms or schools. It will show students that people have different ideas and opinions and they can learn from that. You can share different ideas and thoughts about a lesson or activity. Storybird is an awesome idea you can also bring into your classroom. You can assign your students a partner from another school and they can create a story together. They will have to learn how to think outside the box because the other students might have different ideas or beliefs. Students will start to learn ,through the use of these tools, how to better communicate with people around them to get a project done. They will also have a lot of fun learning. These are the skills we need to be teaching our kids.
References:
Technology enhanced collaborative learning. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://docs.google.com/document/d/11VN6R_yz4zPWMTWuNyrxB5oXwQsLrUcXkAnHI_sHDlA/edit
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