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Giving Students Ownership of Learning

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Submitted By: tutormentor2 | Added On: 11/16/2008 | Total Views (735) | Total Downloads: (0)

The premise of this article is: "If we want to design schools that promote student ownership of learning, one underlying principle must come to the fore: Relationships are essential for learning. Learning is best done with people, not for them. It is most effective when learners are participants rather than recipients. The central element in promoting learning, therefore, is promoting relationships—teacher-pupil relationships; peer-to-peer relationships; and children's relationships with siblings, mentors, and role models. All the traditional and high-tech resources of education—from whiteboards to the Internet and even to classrooms themselves—are best understood as different kinds of interfaces for relationships that support learning." This is posted on the web site of Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that represents more than 175,000 educators from 119 countries and nearly 60 affiliates.

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