Blog Entry 3 D - Collaboration Fluency

Collaboration fluency

1. Name of fluency: Collaboration Fluency

2. Description of fluency: 

Lee Crockett (2012) stated "One of the strongest assets any students can have is the ability to work well within a team. Collaboration with partners that are both, digital is a hallmark of the modern workforce. Team work means power and its essential to success in any business environment. Let collaboration fluency show you how great minds can come together."

  (Lee Crockett, Ian Jukes and Andrew Churches , 2012)  More and more, working, playing, and learning in today’s digital world involves working with others. It is the spirit of collaboration that will stimulate progress in our global marketplace, in our social networks, and in our ability to create products of value and substance. Collaboration fluency is the ability to successfully work and interact with virtual and real partners.

 The 5 Es of Collaboration fluency are: 

1. Establish the collective, and determine the best role for each team member by pinpointing each team member’s personal strengths and expertise, establishing norms, and the signing of a group contract that indicates both a collective working agreement and an acceptance of the individual responsibilities and accountability of each team member.
2. Envision the outcome, examining the issue, challenge, and goal as a group.
3. Engineer a workable plan to achieve the goal.
4. Execute by putting the plan into action and managing the process.
5. Examine the process and the end result for areas of constructive improvement.

A Video about Collaboration Fluency

3. Skills needed to develop Collaboration Fluency: 

Some skills that may be needed to develop collaboration fluency are good impersonal skills also being willing to be a group member or be part of a team.

• Problem solving.
• Creativity.
• Analytic thinking.
• Collaboration.
• Communication.

4. Link to VoiceThread used to develop this fluency:

The use of  VoiceThread can allow for Collaboration with teachers and students through videos and slides and comments. 

My VoiceThread

5. Related Learning Theory:

Social Constructivism- "is about a sociological theory of knowledge according to which human development is socially situated and knowledge is constructed through interaction with others.” (Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann) This theory relates to collaboration fluency because they both are about interacting with people and the environment. "As a result, he claimed they had failed to understand that learning is a collaborative process.(85)" Vygotsky, Lev (1978). Mind in Society. London: Harvard University Press.

6.References : 

• Global Digital Citizen; Lee Watanabe-Crockett (Aug 2 2017)

https://globaldigitalcitizen.org/21st-century-fluencies/collaboration-fluency/

• https://allthingslearning.wordpress.com/tag/creativity-fluency/

• Global Digital Citizen; Lee Watanabe-Crockett (Aug 2 2017)

https://globaldigitalcitizen.org/21st-century-skills-every-student-needs