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Question of the Week Archive

January 7, 2008 - January 14, 2008

Valuing Student Creativity

According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, more than half of all teens have engaged in some form of online content creation. In classrooms that value student creativity, students are encouraged to author, remix and share original content using a variety of technology tools like blogs and digital storytelling.

Is your school using technology tools to help students be creators of information?
a) Yes, most of our technology use is focused on student collaboration and creation of original products, in many media.
23.1%
b) Yes, we are beginning to shift away from using technology to find and organize information to using it to create original products that reflect what students know and can do.
7.7%
c) No, we are using technology largely in ways that do not emphasize the creation of original student knowledge products.
46.2%
d) We have a balanced program in which students use technology both for analysis and synthesis of knowledge as well as for the creation of original knowledge products.
23.1%




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