-Collaboration

Collaboration
Collaboration will be at the forefront a student's education in 2025. Students will be expected to collaborate with classmates, teachers, community members and educational stakeholders. Learning will become less individualized, and there will be a large emphasis placed on the knowledge of others and the knowledge that can be created when a group of people contribute to the learning of one another. Learning will become less about what "I know" and instead focus on what "we know". Global collaboration is made possible by a variety of video and audio chatting web applications, and social media websites can be accessed to collaborate with one's peer or professional group. Within the classroom, students can interact with one another using e-mail, backchanneling (similar to chat rooms), wikis and blogs. Our teachers must teach our students to successfully collaborate with one another. Working together as a cohesive group to create a final product or learning artifact will be commonplace in the educating the students the students of 2025.

Beyond the school walls, students and teachers will collaborate with community members and stakeholders to host a variety of educational activities, and engage learning experiences. Students will learn from individuals other than the teacher, and often seek out real world experts or take their learning "on location". Learning is not contained or limited to what happens within the school building, and within the school day. Students will be encouraged to seek answers elsewhere, and to make sense of the information they see and hear around them, as is relates to their learning and experiences. The teacher's role in the collaborative learning process is to help students make connections within their learning, and apply these connections to a variety of situations. The students will also become responsible for evaluating the material they encounter through collaboration, and ensuring that it is reliable and accurate.

Cloud computing also plays a major role in collaboration. Applications like the Google Docs suite, allow individuals to share a document within the cloud, editing in real time. Materials will be readily available and shared within the cloud, allowing users to access information from a variety of locations and share that information with others in the cloud.

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