Collaboration
Collaboration in the classroom is important in order to promote social skills and teamwork. Working with others helps students learn how to communicate, listen, and share ideas effectively. These are important skills that will serve them well in their future careers and personal lives.
Collaboration promotes deeper learning
When students work together to solve problems, they have the opportunity to explain their ideas to their peers, which can help them better understand and remember the material.
Collaboration promotes equity
Collaborative learning environments can help ensure that all students have the opportunity to participate and contribute, rather than just relying on a few students to do all the talking.
Collaboration promotes a sense of community
When students work together, they can build relationships with their peers and develop a sense of community within the classroom. This can create a more positive and supportive learning environment.
Padlet
Padlet is a virtual wall that allows people to express their thoughts on a common topic easily. It works like an online sheet of paper where people can put any content (e.g. images, videos, documents, text) anywhere on the page, together with anyone, from any device. This is a great tool to collaborate, collect ideas, brainstorm, summarize, and more!
Explain Everything
Explain Everything is an easy-to-use design, screencasting, and interactive whiteboard tool that lets you annotate, animate, narrate, import, and export almost anything to and from almost anywhere. Create slides, draw in any color, add shapes, add text, and use a laser pointer.
Google Drive
Google Drive is a free service from Google that allows you to store files online and access them anywhere using the cloud. Google Drive also gives you access to free web-based applications for creating documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and more. Google docs makes creating stuff easy and collaborative, no matter where you are or what device you’re working from. You can see others make changes in real-time and edits will be automatically saved in Google Drive.
Book Creator
Book Creator is the simple way to make your own beautiful ebooks, right on your iPad. These books could include picture books, comic books, photo books, journals, and more. This open-ended, universal tool allows teachers to cross content areas seamlessly. This tool allows narration, images and video and exports nicely to Google!
Seesaw
Seesaw is a student-driven digital portfolio that empowers students to independently document what they are learning at school. FEATURES: Easily Capture Student Learning in Any Form ∙ Students can use photos, videos, drawings, text notes, links to show what they know.