The Student as Scribe

 

             The Student as Scribe

What do you see as the potential benefits and downsides to incorporating the work of student scribes into your classes? 

Benefits of incorporating student Scribe in the classroom. 

Some benefits would be that students would be able to learn from each other. This allows students to also feel like they are in control of their education. While receiving feedback. Another benefit would be that we can watch our students grow. This gives the purpose behind our lessons to our students. This would also allow more time to explain something if needed and allows students to feel like their work has purpose and meaning. So, they are going to try harder to succeed so it helps everyone in their classroom success as well. Students want their work to have meaning, so they are going to try harder when there is something meaningful to what they are doing.  

On the downside to student scribes, I do not like the fact that the entire world is open to children to communicate back and forth. It is nice that others can enter a blog or a discussion but when creating a safe area for students I feel that it should be other students or educators that can give feedback. By allowing outside resources to enter these posts individuals can find out information on young children (students) and I am not 100% for this idea. This is a slow process when creating but after a while, students benefit from this because they rely on each other.  

What benefits do you see for students who publish to a global audience? 

I see that when students publish to a global audience this allows others to give feedback on what they have learned and the information they are teaching to others. Allowing the global audience to give feedback helps students make changes to their work as well as see that their work and ideas have a purpose.  

Do you think students will work harder on material that they prepare for that audience than they will when doing work for their teachers? 

Yes, of course, Students will work harder for others just because they do not know who is viewing their content. So, students want their work to be accessible and Accruent to everyone no matter where they are reviewing the content from. When doing an assignment teachers look the work over give a grade and the next thing you know it goes to the garbage, so students love to see their work posted and reviewed over time and to retrieve it later in life. So yes, I can see where posting on a blog would create meaning behind the content and they would rather prepare content for the world or their class versus just their teacher.  

How can teachers model sharing knowledge with a global audience? 

Teachers can model sharing knowledge with a global audience by creating a blog for individuals to access within the grade level, schools, or other schools that can create a feedback area for videos, tutorials, notes, and much more. The global audience is welcome to review that can also accept global responses to students' work.