What does the word "collaborative" mean?

Miguel Guhlin points to David Kinane in a recent blog post. David wrote about Miguel's keynote at the 2007 Tuanz conference. (It's not as incestuous as it seems.) During Miguel's presentation he included a slide with the following statement:
"If technology is irrelevant to how you communicate and collaborate, then schools are irrelevant to your students." Most of us want our students to collaborate, how often do we ask them to consider what it means to collaborate?

Questions for Discussion:
1. Ask your students to explain Miguel's quote in their own words. What does the quote say? What does it mean? What does it mean to me as an individual student?
2. What does it mean to collaborate? What are the different ways that people collaborate in 2007?
3. Ask your students to describe one time when they had a powerful collaborative experience. What made this experience powerful?
4. What does the word relevant mean? Is it important for learning to be relevant? Why/why not? Is there anything about a great novel written fifty years ago (pick your own specific one here) that is relevant today? What?
5. From your students perspective, what one or two things could you change in your class to make it a little more relevant? Why would this make it a little more relevant?
6. Might some things appear irrelevant today that will be important in ten years? Why will these things gain relevance? How do your students think that we can add relevance to them today?