Empowering Students - Scott McLeod

After struggling to allow students the space and freedom to make choices both about what they read and about how they respond to or represent what they have learned from their reading, I know that this type of learning is much more sustained, powerful, and realistic for today's student's. I also know that students at all levels are much more engaged with this approach.

Are students meeting the standards when these techniques are used? I believe students who are actually reading are definitely meeting more of the standards than students who are not reading.

Can their achievements accurately be measured? Well, in my experience, students taught in many diverse ways have consistently performed as expected on standardized tests and on departmental aligned testing.

Sugata Mitra does it Again

This guy has the right idea. If I could do this more, I would love it. Maybe the research projects could be more like this. Or, at least that is another way to approach this - self-organized learning.

Documentaries

Here is a great interview about student produced documentaries. Watch the outside research conducted via skype on some of them. What an interesting idea.

See the class webpage.

A link for Skype in the Classroom.

Information for Students

Children should experience their successes and failures not as reward and punishment but as information. - Jerome Bruner

Patrick Awuah on Educating Leaders

Classics Academy

Wow, this is what I call learning.

Sugata Mitra and the Child Driven Education