{"id":36651,"date":"2013-01-22T09:29:57","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T14:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=36651"},"modified":"2013-01-22T12:18:26","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T17:18:26","slug":"should-we-put-students-more-in-charge-of-creating-the-content-i-think-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2013\/01\/22\/should-we-put-students-more-in-charge-of-creating-the-content-i-think-so\/","title":{"rendered":"Should we put students more in charge of creating the content? I think so!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>From DSC:<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">I&#8217;ve been pondering the question&#8230;&#8221;Should we put students more in charge of selecting and\/or creating the content?&#8221; And I&#8217;m thinking, absolutely.\u00a0 We may be surprised at the results. They&#8217;ll own their learning more when they have more choice, more control over what they are working on. Give them real-world problems to solve. Enlist multiple disciplines (writing, art, music, computer science, engineering, mathematics, business skills, etc.). Active, project-based learning. Enlist web-based collaboration and teams &#8212; take on a project with a classroom 1\/2 way around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Some relevant items:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/m.usatoday.com\/article\/news\/1852187\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>College students develop apps to help kids with algebra<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from USAToday.com<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/learninginhand.com\/blog\/7th-graders-publish-their-own-textbook.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>7th graders publish their own textbook<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from learninginhand.com by Tony Vincent<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/cherylsnappconner\/2013\/01\/19\/students-running-a-vc-fund-the-university-venture-fund-says-yes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Students running a VC Fund? The University Venture Fund Says &#8220;Yes&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong> &#8212; from Forbes.com by Cheryl Conner<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.makewav.es\/2013\/01\/16\/students-spearhead-digital-badge-movement\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Students spearhead digital badge movement<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from blog.makewav.es<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From DSC: I&#8217;ve been pondering the question&#8230;&#8221;Should we put students more in charge of selecting and\/or creating the content?&#8221; And I&#8217;m thinking, absolutely.\u00a0 We may be surprised at the results. They&#8217;ll own their learning more when they have more choice, more control over what they are working on. Give them real-world problems to solve. Enlist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[472,305,66,49],"tags":[789,633,337,352,720,794,603,593],"class_list":["post-36651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-active-learning","category-project-based-learning","category-student-related","category-web-based-collaboration","tag-active-learning","tag-collaboration","tag-cross-disciplinary-assignments","tag-interdisciplinary","tag-project-based-learning","tag-real-world-assignments","tag-student-related","tag-web-based-collaboration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36651"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36681,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36651\/revisions\/36681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}