Clement jean François
Reflective essay 6
My
definition of student production, is based on fundamental aspects of education
that involve students engaging in specific task, in which students cultivate
creativity, teamwork, critical thinking and responsibility. “Through
production, students learn new and diverse tools that can provide opportunities
of learning new concepts and material” (Egbert, 190). What I like about chapter
seven in the Supporting Learning with Technology text, is that it introduces
the concept of production not only as tangible outcomes, but as impetus such as
the use of words that help explore the diversity and versatility of production.
“The variety of task that are of the production process makes it easier to
integrate students with different abilities” (Egbert, 185). The Scenario of
chapter seven, describes a teacher instructing a media literacy unit that is delivered
through the support of student production. The scenario describes the benefits and
its good content for students, such as knowing how and when to use technology,
visualizing and decision making. (Egbert, 185).
The
opportunity of choosing methods of how a project is conducted engages students,
because it allows students to have control of expressing their ideas. Students
are motivated when working on projects that refer to their method of learning. I
believe that student production should be mandatory for all grade levels;
because students can exercise teamwork by helping one another explore the use
of certain tools of technology. Through student production, students can teach
their classmates, which makes it not only easier on the teacher, but the
teacher will have time to evaluate students and examine the effectiveness of
student production in the classroom.
Though
the role of student production is diverse and versatile, student production
requires specific guidelines that organizes and structures how students should
be graded. I agree with the text and its explanation of the importance of
guidelines; however despite group work students should be responsible for their
own summaries and part in completing the project. In Ms Okeefe’s It 3210 class
students, are responsible for their own weekly reflections which relate to the
assigned projects and assignments. In conclusion, Student production is
effective when specific guidelines are applied.
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