Tellecollaboration

Telecollaborative projects are important for students' education because they help develop critical thinking skills. A good example of  telecollaborative projects are webquests because they involve multiple parts and partners to complete. Many teachers like to use these projects to develop students' critical thinking skills.
      Bloom's taxonomy pyramid provides the perfect explanation of the critical thinking process. Good telecollaborative projects should use all these parts. There are six parts of the pyramid. 1. Knowledge. Students must recall information and be able to apply it correctly. For example, in a webquest, students might be asked to do some research. Students must be able to learn from that research and use the information for the project. 2. Comprehension. Using the webquest example again, students must be able to understand the information they have researched otherwise they will not learn the information. 3. Application. Students must correctly apply the information they have come up with to the project. 4. Analysis. Students must be able to analyze the information they have used and be able to compare and contrast it to to other information. 5. Synthesis. Students should be able to use this information to form their own ideas and use those ideas to create an element of originality. and 6. Evaluation. Students should be able to judge the effectiveness of the ending product of the webquest. These are the steps of good critical thinking.
      Telecollaborative projects should include all the elements of Bloom's Taxonomy Pyramid for the students to effectively learn good critical thinking skills.