One Drive, Teams, Office, and Forms are some of the tools of Microsoft that I have used in my teaching.

I
found these very effective in easing out the accessibility to the students for lesson execution and
evaluation. Through One Drive I could keep my material in one place and disseminate it. Forms were
specifically useful in self and teacher-designed assessments. In addition to it, the Break out rooms
helped in promoting collaborative learning giving me full control of students' learning pace and timely
intervention. In all it made the practicability of blended learning quite effortless both for teachers and
students.

The lesson of Summary Writing was taught where the students had to collaborate using Microsoft tool-
Teams, One Drive, Class Notebook and Office. The student groups were made using the break-out
rooms, and they were said to research the topic using Microsoft Edge. For scaffolding already the
resource material was added to the content library which was accessible to everyone, which promoted
synchronous and asynchronous learning. Students wrote their essays on Word and used Ppt to give
presentations. In the end, they filled in the Ms Forms to rank themselves against the success criteria.

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The provided link is of collaborative lesson where the students worked in groups to develop the
research skills,digital literacy and of course to attain the specific subject based objectives using various
Microsoft Tools.The 21CLD underpinned the whole project where the object was to make the students
life-long learners,and real life problem solvers.For collaboratian they used Break-out rooms, for
reasearching they used Microsoft Edge and for presenting they used Powerpoint. There was no
constraint of following particular time so it leverage them to work on their own pace thus promoted
independent learning.All the group members were supposed to share the material in Class Notebook
where they could build on each other's learning which helped them not only to identify their own
learning styles but to also use technology to underpin their learning.objectives.

The provided link is of collaborative lesson where the students worked in groups to develop the
research skills,digital literacy and of course to attain the specific subject based objectives using various
Microsoft Tools.The 21CLD underpinned the whole project where the object was to make the students
life-long learners,and real life problem solvers.For collaboratian they used Break-out rooms, for
reasearching they used Microsoft Edge and for presenting they used Powerpoint. There was no
constraint of following particular time so it leverage them to work on their own pace thus promoted
independent learning.All the group members were supposed to share the material in Class Notebook
where they could build on each other's learning which helped them not only to identify their own
learning styles but to also use technology to underpin their learning.objectives.
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Why is collaboration important?

In the modern workforce, people work in diverse teams across time zones, continents,
and cultures. For example, the development of a new product requires engineers,
psychologists, computer programmers, and marketers to work together from different
countries. All members of the team must have strong collaboration skills and integrate
their individual expertise and ideas into one product. To be successful, they need to:

 Work respectfully,  
 Communicate clearly, and
 Make compromises to accomplish a common goal.

How do we prepare learners for such experiences? To begin, we must develop a shared
understanding of what collaboration means. The component skills required to
collaborate effectively include:

 Negotiation,
 Conflict resolution,
 Agreement,
 Distribution of tasks,
 Open communication, and
 Integration of ideas into a coherent whole.

What does collaboration look like?

Educators frequently describe collaboration in different ways. To design learning

environments that promote collaboration skills, educators must first have a shared
understanding and language to describe it. Once they know what collaboration looks
like and what skills it requires, they are better able to plan for it. By understanding the
meaning of collaboration, educators design learning activities that target the
development of skills necessary for learners to be effective collaborators.

Placing learners in small groups and giving them a task doesn't guarantee collaboration.
To learn effective collaboration skills, children must work with others in specific
ways. Activities that promote collaboration require learners to: 

 Share responsibility, 
  Make substantive decisions together, and 
 Work interdependently. 

Such a learning culture moves away from a model of individuality to one of

collaboration. This doesn't happen by accident; it needs to be designed, and it requires
educators to play a significant role in ensuring genuine collaboration is taking place.

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