Teach/Learn – Collaboration

The theme for this month’s Teach/Learn was collaboration. Deb at Science@home added one of my posts to the list of articles about collaboration. Here’s her list and an amazing video of collaboration:

• Catherine at Adventures With Kids worked together with her family to create a wheelbarrow garden.
• Deb at Science@home gave some tips on how you can get your kids collaborating – who likes sibling fights?!
• The fabulous Teacher Tom has written a lot about kids working together, this is just one recent one, but search for ‘together’ on his blog and there are lots of great ideas.

Will (5) and Christina (2 months) during a relaxed day of our early homeschooling, 1990.

• Deb Chitwood from Living Montessori Now wrote about being a relaxed homeschooler, a subject that fascinates me and is the essence of having the whole family work together!
• Monique from Your Cheeky Monkey wrote a post about the reasons she loves to network. While it’s aimed at mothers running businesses, I think it applies to pretty much all of us.
• For the teachers, Edutopia has a good article on collaborative work.
• Because this is Science@home, I have to include some of the science on collaboration – toddlers will share rewards if they’ve worked together, but chimps don’t.
• And seeing we are blogging and therefore part of the new information age, a TED talk on collaboration by Howard Rheingold.