Student Driven Web Tech Course

This week my inspiration came from WebTech1011.  This blogger runs a course concerning Web Technologies.  Mohamed, the blogger, explained how students were allowed to drive the course in terms of organization and assessment of assignments and projects.  Conducting class in this way can be positive for a variety of reasons.  It fits in with what we're doing with our PBL units.  We aim to get students to think and create rather than regurgitate information we throw at them.  Allowing students to think about what project to create, how to execute it and how their work should be judged will truly challenge them.  There is certainly much less control when you give students free reign over a project.  As long as we set certain parameters and make sure that students know what we expect (in terms of quality and completeness I suppose) then I think conducting class this way can be very successful.  Also, students tend to know a lot about emerging technologies.  They may surprise you with what they know and what they can create.  Check the link for the blog post.....


http://mohamedaminechatti.blogspot.com/2011/02/webtech1011.html