Teaching Collaboration Skills with Technology
Teaching Collaboration Skills with Technology
Collaboration is essential today, both in the classroom and in the workforce. But as more learning goes digital, learning experiences can feel more isolating to students. To counter this trend, educators must be more intentional with how they use technology, ensuring that all students learn to see their favorite apps and platforms as tools of connection.
This course will help you deepen your impact when it comes to fostering collaboration through technology. During this microcredential experience, educators will discover new strategies for teaching students to engage in productive collaborative learning using various technology tools and technology-supported teaching techniques.
Participants will also review and discuss recent research on the topic, develop and teach a lesson featuring technology-supported collaboration, and critique one another’s work and performance. Finally, participants will reflect on their learning throughout this microcredential, focusing on how their practice has changed and how student learning has improved or will improve as a result.
Educators who successfully complete this microcredential will:
- Survey and discuss recent research about collaboration skills in the classroom (Synchronous and Asynchronous)
- Explore ways that technology can support collaboration skills (Synchronous and Asynchronous)
- Create, deliver, and critique one or more lessons that build student collaboration skills supported by technology (Asynchronous)
- Reflect upon and summarize how their work in this microcredential will improve their practice and their students’ learning (Asynchronous)
This course is part of a larger microcredential stack, Teaching the 4Cs with Technology. Individuals can take part in individual courses or complete all four to earn a special badge and an ISBE-approved certification for their Professional Educator’s License (PEL). More information on the full stack is available at https://www.ltcillinois.org/courses/4cs/
Cost: $50
Course Period: January 8, 2023 – January 31, 2023 (Registration closes January 9, 2023)
Matt designs, develops, and evaluates the LTC’s digital professional learning, including working with subject matter experts to create learning objectives, conducting needs assessments, and delivering interactive online PD opportunities.