Education

Designing learning contexts using student-generated ideas

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Abstract

This symposium proposes a genre of learning designs called Student-Generated Ideas (SGIs), based on designing learning contexts that promote students as critical producers, distributors, and consumers of knowledge. SGIs place students' ideas at the center of learning designs, considering the learning process as well as the learning goals/outcomes. By soliciting and foregrounding students' diversified ideas in the classroom and beyond, the learning environment communicates to students that their ideas matter to others and that they have a position of responsibility to their own and their peers' learning processes. The notion of SGIs is embodied in a repertoire of studies at the Learning Sciences Lab, National Institute of Education, Singapore, that offer varied yet overlapping interpretations of how student ideas can inform the design of learning contexts. In sharing the core design principles for SGIs approaches, this work contributes important components to the learning sciences discipline and changing educational practice.

Publication Title

Proceedings of International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS

Publication Date

2016

Volume

2

First Page

1090

Last Page

1097

ISSN

1814-9316

ISBN

9780990355083

Keywords

game-based learning, language demands of science, Learning in makerspaces, preparation for collaboration, productive failure, seamless learning, student-generated ideas (SGIs)

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