Just as I thought I had figured this out, the target starts moving again. An interesting summary. Steve
“If you think it’s only about the videos, then you have a really
shallow definition of what this could be. The real power is when
students take responsibility for their own learning.”
http://plpnetwork.com/2012/10/08/flip-love-affair/
In our classroom, we sit down with the curriculum, and students
actually see what the outcomes and objectives are. We then have a
dialogue about what my students’ learning might look like. They have a
choice over what order they are going to work on outcomes, how they are
going to learn and reach those outcomes, and how they are going to show
me what they have learned.
As my students worked with me to invent our own version of
student-centred learning, we realized that the three questions every
student in our classroom had to answer were: What are you going to learn? How are you going to learn it? How are you going to show me your learning? This became our mantra — our framework for learning. This is what it means to give students “control over their education.”
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Essentially, they needed to construct theories as to how stoichiometry
works, rather than watching a video and memorizing the equation. As
Alfie Kohn states, a learning environment that promotes constructing
knowledge “treats students as meaning makers and offers carefully
calibrated challenges that help them to develop increasingly
sophisticated theories. The point is for them to understand ideas from
the inside out.”
Shelley Wright
