Setting Your Students Free How to create a student-centered versus a teacher- centered learning environment in your classroom Presentation By Kelly Miller Fall 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:  video video  (Hobbs, 2009)

Resources Hobbs, R. (2009). The power of fair use media literacy education. Afterimage, 37(2), 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) (n.d.). Retrieved from (n.d.) Retrieved from educators-and-students-conquer-copyright-confusion. educators-and-students-conquer-copyright-confusion