1. Collaboration: Impact on the Changing Educational Landscape Dr Baldev Singh Imagine Education

2. How can technology support collaboration? What 21st century skills are needed for effective collaboration? What are some of the challenges and opportunities for educators? Outline

3. Bin IT

4. Technologies + Teaching + Learning Input process output Creativity, group work, time management Communications skills, reflection

5. “Well done but lots of room for improvement...” ICT in Education: The report so far..

6. 1.5 million pieces of content are shared on social media…daily. 120,000 blogs created daily 2 blogs created per second Generation Y and Z consider e-mail passé…In 2009 Boston College stopped distributing e-mail addresses to incoming freshmen ICT in the 21st century...

7. Drivers for collaboration Web 2.0 + Demographics

8. Digital natives

9. Web 2.0

11. Population World Map

12. 2006 This is the year when one of the greatest collaborative projects of our time was completed....

13. Multiple countries involved Supported through technology The mapping of the human genome

14. Collaboration is a recursive process where two or more people or organizations work together to achieve a common goal Defining Collaboration

15. Can we afford not to be ready?

16. Technology might be the answer, but what was the question?

18. http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001295/129533e.pdf Educational transformation process

19. Students who studied in groups, even only once a week, were more engaged in their studies, were better prepared for class, and learned significantly more than students who worked on their own (Light 2001) What does research tell us about the value of collaborative learning? It is about a change in the teacher-student relationship

20. "Our exams have to reflect daily life in the classroom and daily life in the classroom has to reflect life in society” Minister of education New opportunities

23. ACTIVITY: Tell a story in 6 words

24. College and Career Readiness Think creativelyInteract effectively with others Reason effectivelyProduce results Make decisionsAdapt to change Solve problemsManage goals and time Communicate clearlyUse and manage information Collaborate with othersBe flexible Analyse mediaWork creatively with others

25. People Collaborating: Tell a Story

26. Learners Collaborating: Hole in the Wall Project Self organized collaborative learning through technology "I love solving Maths problems. I find that very interesting. I have learnt it from my sister Raj. I have taught my friend Shilpa.“ Chanchal (Girl, 12)

27. Educators Collaborating: Partners In Learning Network

28. The emerging tools that can support collaboration

30. “My goal in life is to find ways in which children can use technology as a constructive medium to do things that they could not do before; to do things at a level of complexity that was not previously accessible to children” Prof. Seymour Papert 1998

31. The Moment

34. Short video on collaborative work

35. Technologies and collaboration Critical questions for 21 st century teachers and example solutions.

36. How can I help my students to externalize their ideas and share, develop and refine them by collaborating with others? Question?

37. Windows Live Movie Maker

38. How can I support multiple ways of presenting ideas which is not possible with pen and paper, through using audio visual tools? Question?

39. Microsoft Surface

40. How can I provide multiple opportunities for changing and revising learning in a low risk environment? Question?

41. Kodu

42. How can I support my students to work in a non- linear pattern, combining ideas development, editing, refinement and presentation as parallel processes rather than linear? Question

43. Microsoft OneNote

44. Can we afford not to be ready?

46. Technology might be the answer, but what was the question?

47. Engagement

48. Social view of learning I think, therefore I am We participate, therefore we are

49. Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed Every morning a lion wakes up It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle When the sun comes up, you better start running “The World is Flat..Thomas Friedman 2006” Thought for the day.

50. Thank you