TECHNOLOGY TOOLS IN A

COLLABORATIVE CLASSROOM
ENVIRONMENT
 INTRODUCTION

The learners of this generation are a new kind of

breed and it is important that teachers understand
how to deal with them. They seem to thrive in
collaborative learning. They like to connect to the
social networking sites. Creating and producing
something are what they prefer to do rather than
become consumers of information inside the
classroom. They like to be mobile either
physically or virtually as they traverse from point
to point or site to site. Apparently they seem to be
investing a huge amount of their time in a digital
social environment although they can be more
self-directed in choosing what they want to learn
how they want to learn and when they want to
learn
 BACKGROUND & OVERVIEW

• What is collaboration?

The action of working with someone to

Produce, Create & Learn.
 BACKGROUND & OVERVIEW

• Collaboration tools:
Blogs, Wikis, Social Networking Sites, e-mail, Discussion Boards, Real
Time Collaborative Writing, Web Conferencing/Meeting, Social
Bookmarking, Project Management, Resource Sharing ..
• Use of tools - Our 'Need' and We 'Should
Tech savvy generation, Many resources ... ➢ Availability of tools,
Enriches education process 
 TOOLS

• e-Mail • Blogs
• Social Networks • Concept Mapping
• Chat/ Instant Messaging • Micro-Blogs
• Real Time collaborative • Project Management
• Discussion Boards • Wikis ➢ Web
Writing/Editing Conferencing/
• Polls Meeting/ Webinars 
 • One way to engage students to give them a
challenge and a chance to work together. An
example is when you give them an issue to
discuss which they can continue talking about
even if they are outside of the class. Students
may continue the discussion and share
information or come up with an agreement by
EXPLORE
texting, emailing, chatting, or using the online
document. Once they have agreed, they can
move to the next step of presenting their
Technology as a agreements or resolutions to the whole class.
Normally in a regular classroom, teachers

Collaborative may have discouraged students from

conversing with classmates during individual
work, but sometimes there are positive things
Tool that can come out of it as students talk about
the task assigned to them or as they work
themselves of a complicated task.
 TECHNOLOGY AS A COLLABORATIVE TOOL

One way to engage students is to give them a challenge and

a chance to work together. An example is when you give
them an issue to discuss which they can continue talking
about even if they are outside of the class. Students may
continue the discussion and share information or come up
with an agreement by texting, chatting, emailing or using
online document.