Better lesson planning, supporting struggling students and motivating those students who are reluctant to learn—these are challenges educators know all too well. So how can they go about finding real solutions?
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snappy links, resources and other oddities around motivating and engaging today's learners
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Robin Good: Must-read article on ClutterMuseum.com by Leslie M-B, exploring in depth the opportunity to have students master their selected topics by "curating" them, rather than by reading and memorizing facts about them.
"Critical and creative thinking should be prioritized over remembering content"
"That students should learn to think for themselves may seem like a no-brainer to many readers, but if you look at the textbook packages put out by publishers, you’ll find that the texts and accompanying materials (for both teachers and students) assume students are expected to read and retain content—and then be tested on it.
Instead, between middle school (if not earlier) and college graduation, students should practice—if not master—how to question, critique, research, and construct an argument like an historian."
This is indeed the critical point. Moving education from an effort to memorize things on which then to be tested, to a collaborative exercise in creating new knowledge and value by pulling and editing together individual pieces of content, resources and tools that allow the explanation/illustration of a topic from a specific viewpoint/for a specific need.
And I can't avoid to rejoice and second her next proposition: "What if we shifted the standards’ primary emphasis from content, and not to just the development of traditional skills—basic knowledge recall, document interpretation, research, and essay-writing—but to the cultivation of skills that challenge students to make unconventional connections, skills that are essential for thriving in the 21st century?"
What are these skills, you may ask. Here is a good reference where to look them up: http://www.p21.org/storage/documents/P21_Framework_Definitions.pdf (put together by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills)
Recommended. Good stuff. 9/10
Full article: www.cluttermuseum.com/make-students-curators/
(Image credit: Behance.net)
Via Robin Good, João Greno Brogueira, Amanda McAndrew, Official AndreasCY, LaiaJoana, Rui Guimarães Lima, Ramon Aragon, Paulo Simões, Deborah Arnold, Peter Bryant
Mary Perfitt-Nelson's insight:
Wonmderful article. Peter's response is deep! Read it! 
Andrea Ange's curator insight,
February 8, 8:12 AM
In this crazy world where jobs change weekly, and we have to be able to learn new tasks on the fly, it is important that we teach students how to learn on their own. But we need to remember, that they also have to be able to work in collaboration with others...So while we encourage students to personalize their learning something that I advocate for, we also need to remind them that there are going to be times where they have to work in a very connected manner. 
Pauline Farrell's curator insight,
February 10, 1:24 AM
student wikepedia has to be the future where instead of passively reading they actively research and contribute to their learning PLN... We have started but have so much more to go Delete the scoop?
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Motivating Reluctant Learners is a great book! Many resources!