Reading Response #2

        In today's society, working on a project independently is extremely common. Whether you are working as a journalist, an architect, or are a student you tend to work alone. As we learn from PennStates article about Teaching Collaborative Activities, "... students don't neccessarily know how to work in groups. After years of working independently and competitively, they may find cooperation and collaberation difficult concepts to accept in an accademic setting." This is why I believe that it is extremely important to use telecollaborative projects in schools. By doing so, students will be able to   work together and hear from each other while still expressing their own views. THis also allows for them to gain skills needed in the real world such as social skills and comunicative skills.
       Although telecollaborative projects allow for students to learn how to work with other people, it also allows for students to cover all six levels of Blooms Taxonomy of the Cognitive Domain. By working on telecollaborative projects, students cover, knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation.  As Bloom explains, "the major idea of taxonomy is that what educators want students to know... can be arranged in a hierarchy from less to more complex. The levels are understood to be successive, so that one level must be mastered before the next level can be reached." I personally find both Penn State and Bloom's findings important when looking at why telecollaborative projects are so important. With out collaberation skills and thre ability to master one level at a time, individuals are confined to small abmounts of information. Print Page in IE