TECHNOLOGY COLLABORATIVE TOOLS IN THE DIGITAL WORLD

Introduction: The learners of this generation are a new kind of breed and it is important that teachers understand how to deal with them. They seem to thrive in collaborative learning. They like to connect to the social networking sites. Creating and producing something are what they prefer to do rather than become consumers of information inside the classroom. They like to be mobile either physically or virtually as they traverse from point to point or site to site. Apparently they seem to be investing a huge amount of their time in a digital social environment although they can be more self-directed in choosing what they want to learn, how they want to learn and when they want to learn. TECHNOLOGY AS A COLLABORATIVE TOOL There are a lot of available tools and applications that can be used to work collaboratively with others: Some of these are skype, wikis, Blog, google form, web conferencing, Realtimeboard, among others. You need to explore ench application to be familiar with the fe