How can collaborative digital tools help students achieve their objectives?

Collaborative work is brilliant in any situation, such as a traditional classroom or office - Like when you’re told to split into groups to solve a task and present your findings to the whole class afterwards. Working with other people sparks ideas and makes you consider viewpoints you hadn’t originally. In addition, people have different personality types and ways to approach a problem, and the commingling of different skills can make the end result more effective. For example, one person could be very organised, and help to design a timescale to do the work in. Another may be a leader and good at delegating tasks to group members so that the work gets done efficiently. Another might be very creative and come up with lots of ideas, and one more could be practical and start thinking about how those ideas might be realised. if they were on their own, those people might not get the work done at all - the creative person might not know how to actually put those ideas into practice, and the organised person might not have many fresh new ideas, etc. All of that transfers into the digital world, because you don’t have to be in a room with someone to collaborate. Tools like messenger, Skype and shared worksheets make it easy.