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Joining Forces in Purposeful Work: The legacy of student contribution

What opportunities can you identify for incorporating multiple student jobs into your classroom activities?

I feel like having multiple student jobs would be beneficial. Students will have more self-confidence, learn responsibility, and teamwork. Some ideas would be class notetaker. In special ed like the class I work in we have line leader, chef leader, garden leader and hamster leader to help with things in and around our classroom. It is something they look forward to each week.  

How could you help your students create an educational legacy that would outlast their own student experiences?

Students could create an educational legacy by having an interactive notebook/blog. Students can see what had been covered and can share with others. 

 

The Student as Global Communicators and Collaborator

What kinds of opportunities can you imagine for enabling students to engage with authentic audiences around the world?

I feel like there are multiple opportunities. You would have to start small and locally and work your way up. I feel like this would be a timely matter but also very rewarding. It would keep students motivated and engaged and get them ready for real experience outside of school when it comes to teamwork, communication and experiencing others cultures. 

In what ways do you believe that assignments that challenge students to partner with students globally can be more motivating for students than teacher-assigned grades?

Being able to meet other people and learn new things especially people with different culture or people being taught different. I feel like students will research more and will be more interested and engaged. I  also think that students will be more grateful for what they have and are willing to do. 

What barriers do you anticipate educators will face in guiding students in the role of global communicator and collaborator?

Some barriers I feel like you can run into is permission from the school and parents. Also time frame to get this started and going. Another thing that people might think about is possible language barrier. 

Teacher Interview about Inclusion

 

Content Curator

Content Curator

Student as the Researcher

1. What difficulties do you foresee in assigning the role of student researcher in your classroom? What benefits do you think this work might bring to your students?

Some difficulties you may see when assigning the role of a student researcher is that they may not know how to research. Many students think that any cite has true and correct information on it and that is not the case. Also some students do not know how to cite where they got the information. Also some may need help trying to find the right words or topics to search especially when looking at fine details on things. The benefits would be the students learn all that I have listed above and get a global view on the certain topics. Students can incorporate culture into learning any content area. 

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What if you had to design an assessment item in your content area where your students would have access to the web while they take the test? What would that assessment item look like? How would the question have to differ from one based on memorization?

If I was to design an assessment item where students had access to the web while taking the test it would be a written test where students had to cite where they fund the information and put that information into their own words. 

Student Scribe

What do you see as the potential benefits and downsides to incorporating the work of student scribe into your classes?

Some benefits I can see from having a class scribe would be that the class would get better at organizing and communicating with each other. However on the downside I feel like some of the others that are not taking notes will be distracted and not engaged in the lesson. 

What benefits do you see for students who publish to a global audience?

Some benefits that students will have if they publish to a global audience would be diversity of people around the world and their learning styles. Also having different feedback and comments from people about their work. 

Do you think students will work harder on material that they prepare for that audience than they will when doing work for their teachers?

I do feel like students tend to work harder on material that they have to present or share with a audience. I have noticed that students get use to the teacher so having different audiences may help the student work harder on the assignment. 

How can teachers model sharing knowledge with a global audience?

Teachers can blog about their lesson plan or they can post a video of the lesson plans. They can have students make notes and or videos to show with an assignment teaching others about topics they are learning.