In Collaboration in Learning, Mal Lee and Lorrae Ward put paid to a bygone era when schools operated within a paper-based, siloed, educational paradigm, with the classroom at centre stage. In its place is a new mode of teaching, one in which there is no bound between schools, teachers, students, parents and the wider community. And while the single most important denominator in this revolutionary shift is technology, this book is about far more. For the first time, we have a resource that dissects what actually happens when the use of the digital is normalised; when every teacher in a school employs the digital as a natural part of their daily regime.
With case study exemplars from a diverse range of schools from Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States, the emerging trend is one of authentic, enquiry-based learning. In this networked era, there exists an enhanced awareness and deeper appreciation of the learning that occurs in all aspects of a students life, twenty four hours a day, seven days a weekand of the value of that learning in a formal educational context and beyond.
