Empowering Student Voice Through Collaboration, Creating, and Sharing

Type of Presentation

Workshop (1 hour and 15 minutes)

Target Audience

K-12

Presenter Information

Andy Plemmons, David C. Barrow ElementaryFollow

Location

Room 217

Proposal

Learning Outcomes: Participants will identify technology tools that will allow students to create, collaborate, and share within and beyond the walls of their school. Participants will identify strategies and projects for empowering student voice. Participants will brainstorm a plan for how to share student work via social media and digital resources.

Short Description

We are living in an extraordinary time in education. We have access to more tools than ever before to empower our students to explore their passions, create new content, crowdsource ideas with global classrooms, and tackle real-world problems through a global lens. How do we collaborate within and beyond our walls to offer students authentic experiences to contribute to our world? What can we do as educators to empower our students to take ownership of their learning? How can we harness the power of the digital tools we have to amplify each student’s voice? Let’s explore these wonderings together. Our time together will feature many examples of individual, group, grade level, and school projects that weave together many areas of the curriculum. In addition to exploring these ideas, we will spend time looking at the power of social media and online communities to show our work and amplify voice.

Publication Type and Release Option

Presentation (Open Access)

Recommended Citation

Plemmons, Andy, "Empowering Student Voice Through Collaboration, Creating, and Sharing" (2017). Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy. 52.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gaintlit/2017/2017/52