Telecollaborative Response

       Telecollaborative projects develop students' critical thinking skills by allowing them to learn from others as well as laying out an outline to guide the students. Telecollaborative projects allow students to have someone to bounce ideas off one another. According to this website, the highest level of learning, evaluation, includes the ability to critique. Discussing ideas or hearing another person's point of view on something can further a student's ability to evaluate and critique. Another reading, here, describes when to make projects collaborative and how to make groups. It talks about how it is important to look at different students' skills and interests when making a group, which may allow students to work with people and ideas they would not otherwise. 
       Before the students can get to critiquing they must cover other levels of Bloom's Taxonomy pyramid. Telecollabrative projects give students structure to help them work through problem. First they have to learn some basic information, which according to the first stated website is at the bottom of the pyramid, and then work their way to solving a problem based on critical thinking. Having a guideline can help the student get into the habit themselves. In the second website it talks about how using technology a teacher can put up a description of the process, which helps the student through the lower part of the pyramid, as well as finished assignments. For example if the students were told to make a website, which in itself would show the group's higher learning and critical thinking skills.  Print Page in IE