Allowing students to collaborate develops complex sets of skills, abilities, and behaviors that can be taught and modeled, including:
*Communication skills: listening, attending to verbal and non-verbal cues and information, giving and receiving positive useful critiques;
*Cooperation skills: leading and following and switching from leading to following, taking responsibility for group tasks, attending to group process;
*Emotional skills: being aware of one’s own and others’ feelings, expressing feelings appropriately, and showing compassion and empathy;
*Mental skills: focusing on a task until complete, following a conversation, processing it, summarizing it, and taking creative leaps based on it.
TV screens will create workgroup settings that will model what students will use in college and the work setting.
The workplace requires collaboration. Businesses like Microsoft, Google, and Apple, are eliminating cubicles and creating team workspaces. Creativity thrives on collaboration. Creative thinking is another twenty-first-century skill. Finally, if you have the skills for it, collaboration is a fun way to learn!
The collaboration stations will allow for more practice when doing presentations.
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Allowing students to collaborate develops complex sets of skills, abilities, and behaviors that can be taught and modeled, including:
*Communication skills: listening, attending to verbal and non-verbal cues and information, giving and receiving positive useful critiques;
*Cooperation skills: leading and following and switching from leading to following, taking responsibility for group tasks, attending to group process;
*Emotional skills: being aware of one’s own and others’ feelings, expressing feelings appropriately, and showing compassion and empathy;
*Mental skills: focusing on a task until complete, following a conversation, processing it, summarizing it, and taking creative leaps based on it.
TV screens will create workgroup settings that will model what students will use in college and the work setting.
The workplace requires collaboration. Businesses like Microsoft, Google, and Apple, are eliminating cubicles and creating team workspaces. Creativity thrives on collaboration. Creative thinking is another twenty-first-century skill. Finally, if you have the skills for it, collaboration is a fun way to learn!
The collaboration stations will allow for more practice when doing presentations.
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