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Jiahang Lyu
MODERN COLLABORATION
The modern communication can take place via face to face or even across vast distance utilizing a range of communication tools. This can take place across school-day and at each level of schooling which include amongst administrators, with teachers and the administrators, between teachers, amongst each of the above mentioned alongside students, as well as amongst students themselves. The modern communication features students always want to come up together to do the take-home assignments together even if they are warned not to collude as was reflected in Harvard School where nearly one hundred students had colluded in mathematics assignment. Another common feature of modern collaboration is the increased use of communication tools or technologies to communicate and collaborate across a vast distance. Today, various communication tools are available for both teachers and students to collaborate between themselves and across themselves. These communication technologies are making collaboration easy and they are increasingly eroding the face to face collaboration.
Where collaboration works effectively, it can lead to something better than what a person can produce alone. This is because the synergies arise when people mix insights alongside worldviews to develop novel ideas and such ideas become exciting and enlightening. Thus, productive collaboration occurring in face-to-face meetings or across a far distance utilizing a range of tools for communication.
One of the positive effects of modern collaboration between teacher-educators in United States Southwest alongside in Southern Africa, for instance, is the importance of initiatives of cross-culture that assist beginning literacies teachers to learn how they can effectively employ the participatory methodological approaches to disturb conventional teacher-student hierarchy hence capitalizing on domestic resources and knowledge. Moreover, operating in such a hybrid space is positive since it helps the forefront building of a relationship as a vital element of novel teachers’ emergent practice (Rebecca, 2012).
Another positive effect of modern collaboration is that it accords the students of a mechanism by which to outgrow their present capacities and take on novel identities as learners. Indeed, such a modern collaboration allows students to craft scenarios with the potentials of challenging oppressive language ideologies. The modern collaboration between teacher and student remains positive since it allows us to make choices that permit him or her to construct as well as communicate findings that stand meaningful to him and the community. Indeed, modern collaboration embraces international co-teaching relationships which foster the critical language awareness of students as well as strengthening relationships with the classroom community (Salerno, 2013).
One of the negative effects of modern collaboration is that it leads to cheating scandals amongst the students who collaborate due to the takeaway assignments. This was demonstrated in the Harvard cheating scandal whereby students were given take-home exams in a mathematics class during the Spring 2012 term course on “Introduction to Congress. The 279 students colluded and collaborated to produce similar responses to the questions which were a clear manifestation of having collaborated despite being instructed never to collaborate. This led to the suspension of 60 students and another 40 students receiving probation. Thus, modern collaboration negatively promotes cheating amongst the student which makes the student's ability not to be appraised correctly and even led to the implication of students. Thus, modern collaboration ultimately hurt the students. Thus, such collaboration beats the main valuable aim of giving take-home assignments which remain useful testing and teaching tools (Manjoo, 2012).
Another negative effect of collaboration is that the students’ collaborative work increasingly makes it quite challenging for their teachers to assess their performances. This is because several people’s responses will sound identical, and this makes instructors unable to determine who comprehended the work and who was just free-riding. Thus, this negatively makes it hard for the Universities with predominant interests to measure each learner’s grasp of the class material when given take-home assignments. The negative effect also arises from the fact that students use online collaboration and hence talk about the exams with their friends which is indeed cheating.
Even though collaboration is a creative approach that should always be encouraged, there is a need to emphasize that only when such modern collaboration is used wisely and avoid cheating when warned by teachers. However, when the collaboration is misused by students even in doing take-home assignments which are intended to test individual performances, the collaboration will be at the very intension of such assignments as it will be difficult to assess who understood the class materials and those are merely joy-riding (Kelly,& Kathleen, 2019).