“Collaborative Internet projects
are learning activities structured around goals and objectives that require participants to use the Internet. Projects are usually specific in nature and last for a given period of time. They are announced over the Internet, in newsletters or in other professional publications in "calls for collaboration”. Teachers join them by sending an e-mail to the project facilitator. Multiple classes are involved, many times from around the world. Students collaborate on accomplishing the goals and objectives of the project. While working on these ventures, students acquire a wealth of knowledge about the topic as well as gain many additional benefits.” [Collaborative Internet Projects, Presented by John Simi Loudon County Schools' Technology Academy]
Activities
- Investigate the various linked examples above where collaboration has been included in a PBL project.
- Now that we have some general ideas we need to incorporate them into your planning document. Update the version of this document you started in the previous lesson.
- Scroll down to the
section on Collaboration and insert your ideas about how you will attempt to incorporate collaborative strategies in your PBL project. Save this template so that you can use it again.
Teachers are able to design unit plans and classroom activities so that students engage in reasoning with, represent and solve complex real-world problems, as well as to reflect on and communicate solutions (KD.3.d).
