Telacollaboration

A good telacollaborative activity can greatly increase the quality of learning within the classroom. Telacollaboration allows students other modes of learning instead of simply the teaching given by the teacher during classroom times. Students can learn from each other and from other experts via various technological methods. Telacollaborative activities increase student’s critical thinking skills because it forces them to ask questions to further their own learning. Students will not only listen to instruction but expand their understanding by taking their learning into their own hands. The two highest levels of Bloom’s taxonomy are synthesis and evaluation. Telacollaboration can help reach these two levels of understanding. Synthesis can be reached by students working together with each other and with other experts to invent and develop their own ideas and products. Evaluation can be reached by students peer-reviewing each other’s work through avenues such as e-mails and blogs. Students also have to learn the skill of working together, as stated in the Penn State Article, many students have been working independently for so long that they do not have to skill of collaborating with others to reach a common goal. There are many uses to telacollaborative activities which increase a student’s authentic learning and understanding of a subject.

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