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Out of My Element: Forming Bonds Between Science and Language Arts

I’ve always considered myself a willing and even eager collaborator with teachers of almost any discipline. As someone who tends to see the big picture, intentionally or not, I notice connections among disciplines so often it almost feels second nature to me. Yet in my practice, I have mostly integrated subject area...

5 months ago by Susan Lucille Davis

5 Ways to Use Google Docs in the Classroom

Google Docs is a user friendly suite of online collaborative tools that come with tremendous potential for use in the classroom. Last year all of the students in our school received Google Docs accounts and I was kept quite busy getting students and teachers up and running with the new tools, then discovering innovati...

5 months ago by Susan Oxnevad

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10 Collaborative Projects for Your School — Light Years Beyond Group Work

The art of collaborating is a fine art, and most of the time we are really just just having students do group work when we think we are having them collaborate.

one year ago by Adam Renfro

How to Work Together to Build Capacities for Collaboration

Having challenged, in my previous post for Getting Smart, some of the common notions we educators share about collaboration, I acknowledge that it is only fair that I take some time to wrestle with what collaboration really means and why it is so important as we prepare our students for the future.

one year ago by Susan Lucille Davis

Collaboration, Really?

When I think of instances of true collaboration, Eric Whitacre’s Virtual Choir comes to mind: a blending of individual voices, each making his or her best effort to interpret the phrasing to contribute to the breathtakingly beautiful whole, all with the common goal of rendering a beautiful piece of music together. Th...

one year ago by Susan Lucille Davis

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The Largest Myth About Educational User Experiences Today

The largest myth about educational user experiences today is that great user experience is about visual design and graphics. If we make it pretty and easy to navigate, we have created a good user experience, right? In reality, visual design is the icing on the cake. If we don’t put the right ingredients into our user...

one year ago by Guest Author

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Collaboration Matters

Introducing collaboration as an effective learning tool can seem counterintuitive in classrooms when education outcomes are measured solely by individual student ability. But collaborative learning environments are producing impressive results in knowledge acquisition as well as long-term memory retention. This means...

one year ago by Jesse Langley