Quality telecollaborative projects can develop students critical thinking skills which help them learn skills for the future. Working on an assignment with a group forces each group member to contribute something from their skill set. Because each member in the group has different skills and different personalities, working in a group makes each member collaborate their skills to create a final product unique to the group.
Critical thinking is required for a group to work together through a telecollaborative project. As each group member identifies their personal strengths as well as the strengths of the other group members each member must decide how they will work best with the rest of the group. According to the excerpt from the Penn St. teacher II; More often then not conflict will commence while a group is working together, this can strengthen critical thinking because it requires the members to solve the problem while figuring out how to prevent similar problems in the future.
"Blooms Taxonomy of the Cognitive Domain" Explains the process of critical thinking from knowledge to synthesis and evaluation. Knowing something is simply the first stem to critical thinking. Each member in a group knows something they can bring to the table but it is the process of understanding, applying and synthesizing that knowledge which brings about critical thinking.
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