Things That Happen When Students Own Their Learning

This week at school, we were challenged to start thinking about things we do or can do to ensure students own their learning. We looked at this video/reading and were challenged to try something different with the children. 

I wanted to focus on this: 

"#2: They embrace a maker mindset as they work through a design process and launch their work to the world. When students own the creative process, they become designers and engineers and builders and tinkerers and artists. They learn how to solve problems and create solutions and share their work with an authentic audience". 

One of my reading groups this week is going to work through a set of multimodel texts to determine their opinion of "Why isn't the world covered in Poo?".  I look forward to seeing what they come up with and see how they design and use their creativity to tell and support the texts about Dung Beetles. Throughout the week I will add to this post, and update on their progress.