power pics
TRANSCRIPT
How can we encourage kids to take responsibility for and demonstrate their learning in relevant ways?
Stop delivering information, and let your students seek it.
Tired of lecturing?
Photo by Claudio.Ar - Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License https://www.flickr.com/photos/8991878@N08 Created with Haiku Deck
Photo by colorblindPICASO - Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License https://www.flickr.com/photos/45842803@N00 Created with Haiku Deck
According to educational jargon,
Student choice is a form of student-centered learning in which:“a diverse variety of learning experiences, instructional approaches, and academic support strategies are
intended to address the distinct learning needs, interests, aspirations, or cultural backgrounds of individual students.”
Additionally, the Great Schools Partnership asserts that “allowing student choice is generally seen as an alternative to so-called “one-size-fits-all” approaches to schooling in which teachers may, for example, provide all students with the same type of instruction, the same assignments, and the same assessments with little variation or modification from student to student.“
Student choice is also called personalized learning or student-centered learning, since the general goal is to make individual learning, motivation, and students’ needs the primary consideration in instructional decisions,
rather than what might be preferred, more convenient, or logistically easier for teachers and schools.
The following will provide teachers with an overview of the advantages of implementing student choice, and suggest three elements of the learning process which lend themselves to choice. Expert opinion and examples of teaching strategies that organize student choice directives are also provided.
Educators may wonder how to better motivate and serve the diverse learners in their charge. In the interest of allowing and encouraging students to use multiple literacies in powerful, socially responsible ways, we will explore how student choice can satisfy the need for differentiation and reach the diverse population of digital natives in our classrooms today.
Hidden curriculum (2014, August 26). In S. Abbott (Ed.), The glossary of education reform. Retrieved from http://edglossary.org/hidden-curriculum
Teachers and learners both like to feel CONTROL.
Student-centered, choice in learning puts kids to WORK, but it’s by their own choice what kind of work they do!
Teachers still control the content, direct the process, evaluate the product.
however,
Student choice involves kids in:
● synthesizing the content,
● choosing a learning process that appeals to their learning style,
● creating a product that reflects their critical understanding.
Photo by misterbisson - Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License https://www.flickr.com/photos/41894176272@N01 Created with Haiku Deck
Effective implementation allows students to feel power, purpose, and proficiency
When learners feel powerful, they achieve beyond expectations.
As TEACHERS we use:power over - the urge to
control others
power within -personal power to achieve
power with - cumulative achievement of teamwork
Allow students to feel this kind of power in achievement by using choice in ONE element of the learning goal.
content, purpose, or product can be student directed
Photo by Valentina_A - Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License https://www.flickr.com/photos/8418112@N04 Created with Haiku Deck
Effective implementation allows students to feel power, purpose, and proficiency
Offer activity choices that are meaningful.
● promote social responsibility
● relevant, current, wordly
● strengthens relationships with others
● utilizes critical literacy skills
Photo by djwtwo - Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License https://www.flickr.com/photos/40761412@N00 Created with Haiku Deck
Effective implementation allows students to feel
power, purpose, and proficiency
By carefully crafting a limited number of “choices” for students to interact with common core content, teachers can meet each student at his level of competency.
When students feel learning is attainable, they will be risk-taking and grow.
The options must be at the instructional level, and allow for success at many levels.
Options should address CCS and higher-order thinking skills.
REMEMBERINGBullet pointing,
highlighting, bookmarking, social
networking, favorite-ing/local
bookmarking, searching, googling
UNDERSTANDING
blog journaling, twittering, categorizing and tagging, commenting, annotating,
subscribing
APPLYING
running, loading, playing, operating, hacking,
uploading, sharing, editing
ANALYSING
Mashing, linking, reverse-engineering, cracking,
mind-mapping, validating, tagging
EVALUATING(Blog/vlog) commenting,
reviewing, posting, moderating, collaborating,
networking, reflecting, (Alpha & beta) testing
CREATING
programming, filming, animating, Blogging, Video blogging, mixing, remixing,
wiki-ing, publishing, videocasting, podcasting,
creating, directing/producing,
EVALUATING OR
CREATING
APPLYING OR
CREATING
ANALYZING OR EVALUATING
BLOOMS DIGITAL TAXONOMY
Photo by hamur0w0 - Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License https://www.flickr.com/photos/58378435@N02 Created with Haiku Deck
How to organize choicein the classroom?
● learning menus
● choice boards
● web quests
● tic-tac- think
● cubing
Remember,
only use choice for ONE element of the learning goal.
● content
● process
● product
Photo by JonathanCohen - Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License https://www.flickr.com/photos/34580986@N03 Created with Haiku Deck
Photo by BurgerAustin - Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License https://www.flickr.com/photos/42022505@N03 Created with Haiku Deck
So, what is there to gain?
1. Choice improves student buy-in. There is power in the independence of choosing how you learn.
2. Choice puts responsibility in students’ hands. Kids are responsible for work with purpose.
3. Choice allows for flexibility in process. Multiple intelligences are stimulated with tasks from multiple levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy.
4. Choice embraces current and new passions of multi-modal learning.
5. Choice leads to growth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpFBYRNhx_o
Photo by Marc_Smith - Creative Commons Attribution License https://www.flickr.com/photos/49503165485@N01 Created with Haiku Deck
https://daretodifferentiate.wikispaces.com/Choice+Boards
http://www.sde.ct.gov/sde/lib/sde/pdf/curriculum/cali/di_websites_chart.pdf
http://literacyacrossdisciplines.cmswiki.wikispaces.net/Choice+Boards
http://www.pvusd.net/extensionmenus