Why Telecollatorate?

I chose to focus on this because of the nature of my proposal for A.T. Jones Charter School.  Their tech teacher wants to use this activity with his K-5 students.  I learned this activity "is a curriculum-focus activity involving collaboration among teachers and students in distant locations." It exposes students globally to different viewpoints while communicating with other students around the world. 18 framework activities have been already set up to help teachers use these activities. Many projects have already been set up to join. I looked on the websites provided by Dr. Rogers and they were very friendly sites giving various projects to join and how to join the classes long distance. By reviewing the values for both students and teachers, it is clear that telecollaborative activities will be successful teaching strategies for our 21st century learners :

Values for students:

1. learning extends beyond their own classroom
2. communication extents to real-world
3. influence extends into the community
4. expands their technology proficiency for use in their future jobs
5. connect with experts in their subjects giving them new source of knowledge
6. increases motivation, engagement, and interest
7. encourages peer teaching
8. increases their communication skills
9. stimulates additional intelligences to satisfy different learners
10. involves critical thinking skills
11. provides clear organizational skills
12. 150 projects to choose from 
13. meaningful learning opportunities
14. opportunities to develop any new projects

Values for teacher:

1. effective application of curriculum explaining the use of technology
2. watch student voice their thoughts while they go through the inquiry process
3. access to more resources
4. students are more engaged
5. engage in professional development
6. provide better learning experience for their students
7. learn how to assist and guide students to tellecollaborate
8. connect more to other teachers and administrators
9. expands awareness of others in their communities as valuable information sources
10. more aware of the broad community of learners around the world
11. provides organization and scaffolds
12. 150 projects are available to choose from through iEARN