For the first segment of “Who Owns the Learning” the first chapter gives a fantastic outline of the digital learning farm and expectations of students to collaborate and contribute to not only the classroom but the digital world in general. I am a huge fan of having students be the main part of learning in the classroom and having tutorial designers, student scribes, student researcher for the day, and having global communicators and collaborators. I do share some of the concerns that Mr. November has when it comes to bringing these ideas to the classroom. There will be students who just leach off of the notes that others have written to share instead of adding too them or expressing opinions on them in a google doc. I believe this would need to be started earlier (this would be me citing digital citizenship starting in kindergarten onward) but I do believe it is quite possible especially with all the examples given from Mr. Marcos classroom. I really like the idea of a transparent classroom that parents can become an easy part of but that being said there are two different types of transparent classroom, one being just a list of student grades and the better having all student work and classroom goals easily visible online. Moving toward students as content generators or tutorial designers I agree with Mr. November that it makes questions more approachable when it is student to student but also with every year more tutorials are posted giving a wider variety in tutorials that might make certain questions more approachable. The tools given for basic screencasting are a great starting off point for any classroom trying to become a more digital learning space. The example given of students collaborating about tutorial questions and creation were a great example of all of the pieces falling into place and allowing student to student interaction and problem solving. These examples really bolster me moving forward as an educator creating a digital space for my classroom as some items I have come across have fit the "thousand dollar pencil" motif more than a digital learning space. I am looking forward to the next chapters especially creating student scribes because that can be utilized by multiple students per class on multiple levels.
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