I believe that Alan November is right to a great extent. Students must own their learning.
Through the use of new technology, such as Skype, interactive classroom debates may be initiated between American classrooms and classrooms around the world.
The only obstacles will be, convincing administrators to allow experimentation with the pore-set curriculum, and getting teachers to change their lesson plans and to give up a small bit of control in such a way to facilitate the use of the new technology.
The trick to getting students to acquire ownership of their learning, is to engage them...to get their attention. The new technology can accomplish that, as well as opening a whole new world to them.
It's just a matter of implementation.
I agree that implementation is the biggest obstacle. Not only is showing teachers how to use a technology important, but also how to apply it to making a lesson more engaging for students.
ReplyDeleteYou are absolutely right, implementation is a big impediment to making students responsible for their learning. It's important though and has to be done at some point.
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