If you walk into a school and survey the students, many students will describe school as boring; they lack to see the importance in going to school and will either merely comply to meet the requirements, cheat their way to graduation, or drop out. Is this what we want for our children? Is this what we want for our society? Do we want our society to be made up of members with regrets and unfulfilled goals because they lacked to see value in the education they were being provided with? Personally, I would love to see a world with an abundance of doctors, engineers, scientists, meteorologists, architects, lawyers, educators, and pharmacists that pursued a higher education in their respective field because they discovered a passion for that subject and continue to educate themselves in order to feed that passion. What can we do to help plant those seeds of passion? Students need to stop having a passive role in their education. If we are constantly feeding them more and more information, who is actually doing the learning? Students need to start taking on an active role in their education via authentic student-centered learning activities. What does this mean? It means we stop teaching to a test. It means we shift our focus to activities in which the learner is doing the bulk of the work that can be immediately applied to this so called “real world.” After all, why should our students wait until after graduation to apply the skills they are learning today? How can we hold students accountable for their learning? How can we piece it all together? My innovation plan on student e-portfolios can help. I say help because student e-portfolios will be very useful TOOLS to guide students in drawing connections as they reflect on their learning and take ownership over their learning, which will in turn lead to more meaningful learning experiences. These meaningful learning experiences are what will plant those seeds of passion needed to pursue a goal. In a TED talk filmed in 2009, Simon Sinek discusses the logic behind starting with why, moving on to how, and finishing with what. This approach supports the notion of capturing the heart first and then engaging the mind. The following infographic answers the why, how, and what for my student e-portfolio innovation plan. References
Start with why - Simon Sinek TED talk. (2013, September 29). Retrieved October 11, 2017, from https://youtu.be/sioZd3AxmnE
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