Collaboration is an important 21st century skill for students. Which of the following ICT-based activities can MOST help the purpose for groups of students working on a play-writing assignment?

Option 1 : Students in each group create a common shared online document where they put down their thoughts and create a final script.

Collaboration means ‘to work jointly with others, especially in an intellectual endeavor. It means association, teamwork, joint effort, or partnership. Collaboration is a process where two or more people think and work together towards a common purpose.

Tools for Collaborative learning: The tools for collaborative learning may be classified as offline tools and online tools.​

• Online or ICT-based tools are those tools that are used when connected to the Internet. The activities in which these tools are used are called ICT-based activities.
• These include email, cloud-hosted applications, such as messengers, blogs, bulletin boards, discussion forums, wikis, social media, etc. You can access these tools on your computer, laptop, tablet, mobile, or other hand-held devices when connected to the Internet.
• Creating a common shared online document, putting down their thoughts, and creating a final script while working in a group can MOST help the purpose of collaborative learning as it will ensure the active participation of students by working in a group and applying practical knowledge to complete an activity.
• Here, the students are creating a common document, hence, they are attempting to learn something together. This type of learning is helpful in the development of critical thinking.
• It is believed that individuals are able to achieve higher levels of learning and retain more information when they work in a group rather than individually. It promotes 'learning by doing' to make children self-reliant and productive.

Hint

• In the rest options, students are involved in ICT-based activities using ICT-based tools but they are not working collaboratively. They are involved in their own work by working individually.

From the above points, we can conclude that 'students in each group create a common shared online document where they put down their thoughts and create a final script.' is the correct answer in the context of the question.

• Offline tools are those media that can be used on an isolated computer, which is not connected to the Internet.
• These include softcopies of the documents, slides, illustrations, audio, and video files, which can be stored in your computer and distributed through transfer devices, such as data transfer cables, hard drives, memory sticks, CDs, etc.