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Collaboration

2.2

Intro

For too long, 'Collaboration' with technology has been a group of three huddled around a computer, with one doing all the work, another chipping in with some advice and a third taking no part whatsoever!

But, nowadays, by the end of the Foundation Phase, pupils should be collaborating on one document from two different devices.

 

For the Nursery pupils however, all they need is an understanding that such collaboration is possible.

Framework

2.2 - Collaboration

  • be aware people can collaborate online.

Skill by Skill

  • Be aware people can collaborate online.

Vocabulary

work together     online

Focus Tasks

Working Together

True digital collaboration is a new concept to most adults, let alone pupils (who are not expected to start learning such skills until Year 2). So all you need to do at this stage is to give plenty of opportunities for the pupils to see such collaboration occur.

  • Login to your cloud word processor (Office 365 in Hwb, or Google Docs) on the computer attached to your projector. Have a teaching assistant do the same on a different computer.
  • Open a new document and share with your assistant so that you're both looking at the same document.
  • As you talk to the pupils, have your assistant add photos or words to the document on his/her computer, so that they appear behind your back on the white board.
  • Feign surprise at seeing them appear, asking your assistant how she can make things appear on your computer. "We're both on the same document, so anything I add also comes up on your screen".

Regularly explain how you and another teacher / teaching assistant worked together on different computers on a document you're showing the pupils.