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:::''Students today are '''learning how to collaborate in order to be successful in their future lives'''. This directive has been adopted into provincial school curriculum since this is the <u>skill</u> that business and our society <u>demands</u> from our future citizens''. Unfortunately, older generations have been conditioned to avoid open-collaboration.
::'''Negative Perceptions Among Instructors'''
:::In this rapid adjustment into the "information age"The youth are more comfortable and adaptable with on-line collaboration. Unfortunately, sometimes the students should be training the if instructorsfail to embrace newer technologies, and leave they may impede the growth of the instructor to focus on teaching timeless concepts such as '''critical thinking''', '''research techniques''' and '''team-building'''students. If properly utilized and monitored, '''instructors could be "leading the students by example" to prepare them to collaborate in a proactive manner to benefit societyand enforcing the classic concepts such as "critical thinking", their workplace"research", and their personal lives"interpretation"'''.
::'''Private Interests'''
:::'''Trying to own a collaborative idea or concept can limit its growth or success'''. When people mention that I should copyright the "/Guide on the Side/" Computer Lab resource, I immediately respond, ''"that would immediately destroy what I have created"''. I adopt the attitude, "what you give usually will come back ten-fold". Instead of limiting that resource only to the Westminster Computer Lab, it should be freely available for the World to benefit. Many private interests are trying to compete to control (what I consider) to be the next big wave which is online storage and document manipulation. Free software proponents such as '''Richard Stallman''' see the industry term '''"cloud computing"''' as nothing more than a '''"marketing gimmick"''' ('''icloud''' was recently released from Apple). Many computer program developers have collaborated for decades before the term "cloud computing" became fashionable...