Student EdCon 2013
Then on Saturday morning, each group presented their idea on improving learning to the students, teachers, administrators and parents. All eight groups were impressive and surprisingly contained similar themes. Themes that emerged from the groups included: increased student choice in what they learn, changes in the physical environment, and democratic classrooms. Our team of LASD teachers and administrators selected three of the group ideas to implement in some way next year. The three ideas selected were Elective Shopping, Democratic Schools & Project Me. The presentations from these groups are linked below.
Elective Shopping
Democratic Schools
Project Me
Everyone
involved with Student EdCon learned a ton. It is probably debatable
who learned more, the students or our teacher facilitators. At the end
of each day, we debriefed with facilitators to share insights, learnings
and thoughts on refinements. At the end of the first day, one of our
teacher facilitators shared how amazed she was by the level of depth
being contributed by students. The overwhelming questions by all was,
“Why haven’t we involved students in rethinking learning before?” As a
team, we looked forward to thinking through the implementation of
student ideas and are already excited to begin planning Student EdCon
2014.
Collaboratively Contributed by Alyssa Gallagher, Kami Thordarson & Karen Wilson
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