Educators dedicate time to collaborate with both colleagues and students to improve practice, discover and share resources and ideas, and solve problems.
a. Dedicate planning time to collaborate with colleagues to create authentic learning experiences that leverage technology.
b. Collaborate and co-learn with students to discover and use new digital resources and diagnose and troubleshoot technology issues.
c. Use collaborative tools to expand students’ authentic, real-world learning experiences by engaging virtually with experts, teams and students, locally and globally.
d. Demonstrate cultural competency when communicating with students, parents and colleagues and interact with them as co-collaborators in student learning.
Reflection
Constant communication is the key to any relationship thus, it is important within the classroom as well. Students, educators, administration, parents, and any member of the classroom community benefit from clear communication. In my classroom I plan to have a website that will allow for my parents to collaborate with me as well as the other parents in my class. It is important that your students’ educational journey be cohesive with their peers, even those in different classes. Taking time to plan and collaborate with other educators on your team will allow for you all to be on the same page with content and truly provide students with an interdisciplinary educational journey (ex. Tell the librarian what unit you are one so students can do S.T.E.M. projects related to concepts in the classroom). New technologies are emerging every day that aid in collaboration and connection it is important to utilize these to maximize clear and proficient communication between all parties involved in the educational journey.
Artifacts for Standard: Collaborative multimedia tools presentation
This collaborative presentation is a wonderful example of how you can connect with others and develop an amazing product that truly meets all expectation. This presentation was curated to gather communication and creation tools in a quick way that provides a description then a how-to video in case you are interested in learning more about that specific collaborative tool.
