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What happens when you:
Allow students to determine what they need to learn, and then enable students to manage their own learning activities?
Allow students to determine what they need to learn, and then enable students to manage their own learning activities?**
If we are continually surprised by what our students are capable of when we empower them with dynamic ways to demonstrate their learning, then isn’t that an indication that we should be expecting more?
I can’t help but think that we should expect more… and that perhaps this is a motivation issue. I don’t mean that “kids today aren’t motivated”! I think that we just don’t motivate them enough, we don’t offer them opportunities to feel empowered about learning, we don’t let them learn for the love of learning. Instead we teach them things that will fit on a test, things that will ‘prepare them for the next grade’.
What happens when you:
Allow students to determine what they need to learn, and then enable students to manage their own learning activities?
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