“The Voice of the Active Learner”
Sebah Al-Ali
October 23, 2014
Unlike old times, our students have access to unlimited pages, pictures, videos, and authentic materials that are accessed with a click of a button or by a tap of a finger. This is why it doesn’t make sense anymore to throw colorless papers or lifeless PDFs at students and expect them to “enjoy learning.”
Students need to visualize, find information themselves, and produce something that proudly showcases what they’ve learned, and that allows them to own their learning. Published two years ago, this inspiring video (two minutes long), created by BlackBoard and JESS3, creatively explains why:
To read more about how learning has changed, this is a thought-provoking article by Alan Rodway: Learning Has Changed.
October 23, 2014
Teaching & Learning
active learning, digital natives, learning, video
