This is Jennifer Gonzalez welcoming you to Episode 195 of the Cult of Pedagogy Podcast.

In this episode we'll be exploring five fantastic ideas for collaboration projects you can

use with your students this school year.

Collaboration has been a prominent topic in education for a long time.

Those who recognize its importance regularly point out that working together to solve

problems and create new things is a vital part of life so it makes sense to practice it

in school.

Ideally we'll have students work together frequently because the skills needed to make

collaboration work well take a lot of practice.

One challenge teachers face in creating these opportunities is thinking up ideas for good

projects.

So I sent out a tweet asking for teacher-tested projects that weren't well and got students

actually collaborating, not just dividing up the work.

From those responses I chose five examples and I'm presenting them here as broader project

concepts.

The goal is to give you five different options that you can customize for your content area.

For each one I've also offered a quick description of the technology the teachers in the examples

used to facilitate their work.

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