Module 3 Collaboration-Rheingold on collaboration video
Yes, I do think that humans have a basic instinct to interact and work as a group. For ages people have worked and lived together in groups, tribes, communities, villages, and colonies, so there had to be some form of communication between these people. Communication is very important because people have to know the following: something about the other people, the other people know something about you, everybody know what you are going to do to assist the others, and everybody know what decision the other person has made if one is pose. There has to be some form of communication and interaction between them for something to get accomplished by each of them. Rheingold states that “human communication media and the ways that people organize socially have been co-evolving for a long time (Rheingold, 2008).” Even in the workplace, there has to be some form of collaboration between the workers and the manager, the workers and other workers, the manager and the executives, the executives and the buyer, the executives and the owners, and the sellers and the advertisers. What it all comes down to is that there has always been some form of communication for people to interact socially as well as to be able to work together. In the past we had various means or types of collaboration tools but things have improved so much today that we have new forms of technology tools that are changing on a daily, monthly, or yearly basis which are used for communicating with others.
Technology facilitate collaboration among learners based on constructivist principles by letting the learners search for knowledge by using the Internet and giving them access to information based on their learning styles. It allows the learners to be self-directed and be actively engaged in higher order thinking and problem solving. The use of technology software such as skype, blogs wikis and Google Docs are good ways to for learners to collaborate with other people in other parts of the city, state, country and globally.
The Internet provides many types of tools that are designed to help learners collaborate and communicate with each other. According to West, Sample, & West, “Kearsley states that learners are able to work out real word issues and the handling and reflecting complex problems through the use of collaborative group projects (West, Sample, & West, 2007).” http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/howard_rheingold_on_collaboration.html
References:
Rheingold, H. (2008, February). Howard Rheingold on collaboration [Video file]. Retrieved from http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/howard_rheingold_on_collaboration.html
West, J., Sample, S., & West, M. (2007). Online collaboration tools in instructional design. Retrieved from http://www.uwex.edu/disted/conference/Resource_library/proceedings/07_5065.pdf
Blogs I posted to:
I posted to Sandra Johnson's blog http://sandracjohnson.wordpress.com/2011/07/12/collaboration/#comment-41
I posted to Aimee Cothran http://cothran7105.blogspot.com/2011/07/how-can-technology-facilitate.html?showComment=1310699350519#c4025302087092479554
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