Collaboration in Education

 Through out education in school, collaboration is important to a personal development. Collaborating is a way for others to share idea and experience to complete a task. In chapter three "Collaborate for success" from the book, "Adventures in Authentic Learning, 21 step-by-step projects from an Edtech Coach" by Kristin Harrington", shows that Peer-Review has benefits for a child's education. 

Harrington talks about how peer review helps children and older kids through feedback and future projects. Having a classmate/ peer review your work before submitting helps someone understand different ways to write, or make things. 

For example, in my younger grade years we would have moments in writing classes where we would stop writing and switch papers with a classmate to read. 

This was a common practice for kids my age. Its a great concept for someone your age to re-read you writing. This helps with communication as your peers are able to tell you their opinions and feedback on your writing, art, etc...

Harrington proceeds to explain that when it comes to using Peer-Review that you most include a rubric. Must kids tend to look at others work and pass it on as a "okay", or "it looks good". A rubric would act as a sort of checklist for kids to go through to make sure that the work actually is "great". This works normally for grades k-2, where children need to learn to collaborate the most. This works for writing assignments and group projects. Peer Review also has many different versions. Such as Multi-student peer review, which in small words is just students giving feedback to two or more individuals. Partner peer review, which is simple. its just two people going over each others work. And finally mixed methods peer work, which is getting both methods and having two partners work first and then switching those.