3 Takeaways
- There has been a focus on shifting from a school environment where students have to learn to an environment where students want to learn, but maybe this is not the ideal end goal. We should be moving towards an environment where students feel empowered to take control of their own learning to help them become creative, empowered critical thinkers.
- Students should feel intrinsically motivated, rather than extrinsically, meaning their motivation should come from within instead of because they feel like they "should", they "have to", or to please someone other than themselves.
- Allowing students to be creative and to actually create as a means to an education can allow us to have both of these shifts mentioned above.
2 Questions
- I love all of these ideas and this shift in thinking, but what does that actually look like when you are given a curriculum to follow, assessments to give, and student data to compile?
- What does this actually look like for our youngest students? What does allowing students to create and guide their own learning look like for a 2nd grader?
1 Idea to try
- I would love to be able to use that list of "ways students can create digital content" to incorporate into my classroom, empowering students to create something that shows their learning. I think many things on that list wouldn't necessarily work for 2nd graders, but many would, such as creating a video, a digital poster, a slideshow, designing a book cover or movie poster, etc. I might have students make a movie poster digitally for a book they have read recently, or create a book using Book Creator to explain something they have learned about recently.
- There has been a focus on shifting from a school environment where students have to learn to an environment where students want to learn, but maybe this is not the ideal end goal. We should be moving towards an environment where students feel empowered to take control of their own learning to help them become creative, empowered critical thinkers.
- Students should feel intrinsically motivated, rather than extrinsically, meaning their motivation should come from within instead of because they feel like they "should", they "have to", or to please someone other than themselves.
- Allowing students to be creative and to actually create as a means to an education can allow us to have both of these shifts mentioned above.
2 Questions
- I love all of these ideas and this shift in thinking, but what does that actually look like when you are given a curriculum to follow, assessments to give, and student data to compile?
- What does this actually look like for our youngest students? What does allowing students to create and guide their own learning look like for a 2nd grader?
1 Idea to try
- I would love to be able to use that list of "ways students can create digital content" to incorporate into my classroom, empowering students to create something that shows their learning. I think many things on that list wouldn't necessarily work for 2nd graders, but many would, such as creating a video, a digital poster, a slideshow, designing a book cover or movie poster, etc. I might have students make a movie poster digitally for a book they have read recently, or create a book using Book Creator to explain something they have learned about recently.