by GDC Team | Collaboration Fluency
When collaborating in teams, creating solutions to real-world problems becomes an adventure and boundaries become limitless. It’s no secret that today’s students love working together. Teachers do as well, and as one you’re in the perfect position to... 
by Lee Watanabe Crockett | Assessment
Why is having a choice of good studying strategies important in our school years? It’s because the idea of studying is black or white for most students. They either love it or they despise it. When we’re in school, we have to study if we want to make forward... 
by GDC Team | Collaboration Fluency
Nothing is more frustrating to a teacher than lack of attention from students. You have spent several weeks or even months working on some project that you thought would be a breakthrough, but nothing happens. Situations like this are very common in modern learning... 
by Lee Watanabe Crockett | Collaboration Fluency
Online collaboration tools make working with others easy, no matter if they’re across the room or across the world. Businesses today thrive on their teams’ use of collaborative skills. The same can be said of the student groups in our classrooms. But with... 
by Lee Watanabe Crockett | Collaboration Fluency
On the surface, introverted students don’t have much to offer, but if you know the reason behind this you’ll see it’s far from true. When creating a collaborative classroom, one of the biggest complaints about collaboration is that some members don’t “carry... 
by Lee Watanabe Crockett | Collaboration Fluency
Working collaboratively is a hallmark of today’s digital age. Our marketplace has expanded into global parameters, and many organizations work remotely with people all over the world as an established norm. This culture of collaboration is no less evident in our... by Lee Watanabe Crockett | Collaboration Fluency
Collaborative classrooms are the learning environments of the future. Schools around the world are saying goodbye to the conventional lecture-based learning space where the students remain inert in their respective seats and the teacher remains at the head of the... 
by Lee Watanabe Crockett | Collaboration Fluency
How do we achieve equal engagement within a collaborative classroom? The secret to success is tolerance, drawing on individual strengths, safety in community, properly working instruments (tools), and above all, passion. True engagement need not look the same for... by Lee Watanabe Crockett | Collaboration Fluency
via Edudemic I don’t get out of the classroom much once the school year has started. There are jokes that if a colleague is more than two doors down, we never see each other. This is sad. This changed slightly when we put up the Keurig station in the corner of the... 
by Lee Watanabe Crockett | Collaboration Fluency
How would you help students to enhance their collaborative studying efforts? Not an easy question to answer. On average, college students have more experience meeting in groups. We know that their expertise can help younger students. We can take a page from that book,... 