Collaboration

This week we our theme was collaboration.  Collaboration is working together with other people to solve problems.  Collaboration is one of the four tenets that we go by in the Open Program.  What we did to apply collaboration are our teachers, Srta. Rad and Mr. Glim gave us a paper with thirteen characters listed and the descriptions of them.  We had to read the descriptions and choose six people to go to a Plant X, since our planet is being destroyed.  First we individually choose six people, and then we got into groups of three or four and made a new list of four.  Then all fourteen of us, as a class, made a final list of six characters to go to Plant X. 

Collaboration only works if everyone in the group participates.  Our first time doing the assignment we didn’t collaborate the way that we could have, because not everyone participated and we didn’t have an organized way of discussing who we wanted to go to the Plant X.  There was lots of yelling and getting frustrated.  The next day, our teachers showed us a video of us trying to make the final list and we got to reflect on how we collaborated.  Then we discussed how we could have done a better job.  A couple days later we got to redo the project and this time we collaborated much better.  No one yelled at each other.  We used a voting system to add or eliminate characters.  All in all we successfully used collaboration the way our teachers had taught us.  I felt very accomplished when the assignment was completed because I thought that our class had shown full mastery in collaboration. 

What do you think of our collaboration assignment? Do you think that collaboration is easy to master? Comment below!       

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