Setting Your Students FreeHow to create a student-centered versus a teacher-centered learning environment in your classroom

Presentation By Kelly MillerFall 2014

What is Student-Centered Learning?

Students are in charge of their own learning

Teacher becomes a coach instead of a lecturer

Classroom is an open ended learning environments Inquiry based

Problem based

Project based

Student-Centered vs. Teacher-Centered

In a student-centered learning environment, the STUDENTS:

Are actively engaged in the learning process

Become the researcher, not the teacher

Gains greater competency with technology

In a student-centered learning environment, the TEACHER:

Facilitator of learning

Is a coach, not a lecturer

What does student-centered learning look like?

Students may be sitting in various places around the room

May look “unorganized” or “chaotic” to onlookers

Noise level is increased in compared with teacher-centered learning environments

Computer is a learning tool

Students are being creative in their ways to research, organization and team roles

Students my be working independently or in small groups

WHY student-centered learning?

Students focus on understanding the content as opposed to memorizing the information

Students will work on reducing the differences between what they know and what they observe

Students knowledge is enhanced through discussions and interactions with others and in turn, individual understanding is improved

Benefits of Student-Centered Learning:

National Education Technology Standards

Creativity and Innovation

Communication and Collaboration

Research and Information Fluency

Critical Thinking, Problem Solving and Decision Making

Digital Citizenship

Technology Operations and Concepts

Focus on technology skills and knowledge in six areas:

What are some problems with integrating technology at our

school? Problem

Time to create and plan student-centered lessons

Not enough resources for students to properly use the technology

Solution

Using one CLT meeting a month to plan a lesson/unit to plan unit as a team

Rotate the grade level laptops to one teacher per week to allow for each classroom to complete the lesson/unit throughout the course of the month/month and a half

Types of Student-Centered Lessons

Math

Science

Social Studies

Reading

Writing

Combination of all subject areas

Copyright and Fair use guidelines

In November 2008, the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) adopted a new code of rules replacing the 1980 policy. This code states that educators can:

Make copies of newspaper articles and other copyrighted works for use in the classroom

Create curriculum materials with embedded copyrighted materials

Share, sell and distribute curriculum materials with copyright information embedded

(Hobbs, 2009)

COPYRIGHT AND FAIR USE GUIDELINES

Under some circumstances, learners can:

Use copyrighted materials when they are creating their own new material

Distribute their work electronically if they meet the transformativeness guidelines

Two videos to use with students to explain copyright:

http://mediaeducationlab.com/1-whats-copyright-music-video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tWhKeb-fUQ

(Hobbs, 2009)

Resources

Hobbs, R. (2009). The power of fair use media literacy education. Afterimage,

37(2), 15-18.

Lowther, G. R. (2010). Integrating computer technology into the classroom: Skills for the 21st century, Fourth edition. Boston: Pearson Education, Inc.

Valenza, J. (2011). Opening gates: On celebrating creative commons and flexing the fair use muscle. Library Media Connection, 29(4) 30-32.

(n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.theteachertoolkit.com/index.php/tool/3-2-1.

(n.d.) Retrieved from http://mediaeducationlab.com/news/music-videos-help-educators-and-students-conquer-copyright-confusion.