Collaboration...oh the possibilities!

When you hear the word COLLABORATION, what comes to mind? To me it means working together to find a solution to a problem while having the ability to bounce your ideas off of others to come up with the best possible solution! We have been working on this in Social Studies at Kitscoty High School. Students have had daily access to Chromebook computers and using technology, collaboration and teacher guidance students are continually asked questions in which they need to collaborate to find solutions. By allowing students the liberty to work with each other using Google Docs, which are editable from multiple computers by different users at the same time, by having access to Google hangouts which is a live chat amongst classmates and teachers, accessible from home around the clock and by using Google Classroom which is an online classroom where students can access all notes, assignments and projects in one place anywhere in the world, collaboration has become so easy. But it really is more than that. Collaboration is the way of the future. In a world where we can "Google" pretty much anything we need to know, collaboration allows us to dig deeper, to problem solve and to come to conclusions by hearing many perspectives and challenging those perspectives. Collaboration teaches us not what to think, but how to think. It allows the varying talents of each member in the group to be showcased, and that, to me, is what education is all about! - Mrs. Harty-Blank

Here is some recent collaborative work done by Grade 9B: Social 9B Youth Criminal Justice Act Videos


"As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people's ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life." ~Amy Poehler

This is Emma's Google document, but in live time,
 you can see Caroline editing in blue from her computer and
Bailey editing in pink from her computer.