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Can Students Write their own Textbook?

Can Students Write their own Textbook?. Dr. Jennifer Kidd. Students writing their own text????. What intrigues you about this idea? What horrifies you?. Potential Benefits of a student-authored text. Students save $ More motivated to read (maybe?) Student Empowerment

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Can Students Write their own Textbook?

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  1. Can Students Write their own Textbook? Dr. Jennifer Kidd

  2. Students writing their own text???? • What intrigues you about this idea? • What horrifies you?

  3. Potential Benefits of a student-authored text • Students save $ • More motivated to read (maybe?) • Student Empowerment • Students decide what’s important (who normally does?) • Students evaluate their own course materials (who normally does?) • Students see themselves as authors, experts, contributors to professional conversations on educational topics

  4. Potential Benefits of a student-authored text • Communication and Evaluation Skills • Students write for an authentic audience, learn to present information • Students provide and receive constructive feedback • Students are responsible to their peers (task has purpose beyond course assignment)

  5. Potential Benefits of a student-authored text • Technological Prowess • Students learn new skills for 21st century literacy • Pre-service teachers pass skills on to future students

  6. Potential Concerns of a student-authored text (product and process) • Inaccurate, • Incomplete, • Grammatically nightmarish, • Inappropriate Content • More work for you and students • Technical & Logistical • Challenges

  7. My Students’ Textbook http://www.wittieproject.org/wiki/In_Our_Schools/Spring_2010 • 4th year writing own textbook • Each semester there’s a new edition • Best articles carry over to compete for a position in the official text • 200 pre-service teachers write it each semester • Foundations of education course • Students select a topic (10 topics x 6 chapters) and “TEACH” their peers about the topic by writing 1000 word article (with learning targets, references, multiple-choice questions, sidebars, etc) • Extensive peer review and peer evaluation process (Should students grade the book or the instructor?)

  8. Results & Reactions • Students learn content from the text they write as well as they learn it from a traditional textbook • Students like researching and writing their article but stress about posting their work for all to see • Students like the interactive parts of the text and reading other students’ perspectives but still don’t much like reading textbooks • Students hate wiki code • Students feel proud of their work • Student need lots of hand holding at the beginning but feel more technologically confident at the end

  9. If you’d like to have a closer look… or even try it out: • http://www.wittieproject.org • Jennifer Kidd • Lecturer, Department of Teaching & Learning • Office location: Ed 166-7 • Office phone: 683-3248 • jkidd@odu.edu

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