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OECD (2015) Students, Computers and learning : making the Connexion, Pisa, OECD Publishing

"So I’m asking you are you actually preparing your students or designing learning in such a way that you’re actually preparing your students to enter the world to be critical thinkers and complex communicators. [...]
There’s no use talking about collaboration unless you really take apart what does collaboration mean. You can have all the great technology and say ‘oh we’re using Skype, and oh we’re using this’, and I’m saying, what are you using it for? How’s the learning actually changing? Technology can support new pedagogies that focus on learners as active participants with tools for inquiry-based pedagogies and collaborative work spaces, and that’s what you’ll hear about today. How do you actually enable collaboration; what does it look like; how do you describe it?"
Ben Murray, NCCA, Dublin, Ireland