{"id":168,"date":"2012-12-31T07:12:13","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T12:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briancroxall.net\/digitalpedagogy\/?p=168"},"modified":"2012-12-31T07:12:13","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T12:12:13","slug":"meaningful-assignments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.briancroxall.net\/digitalpedagogy\/2012\/12\/31\/meaningful-assignments\/","title":{"rendered":"Meaningful Assignments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019d love to discuss using technology to create more meaningful assignments and assessments. I want students to learn by doing and for there to be a connection between their in-class and out-of-class lives. I also want to be interested in what they\u2019re producing! Traditional essay assignments don\u2019t usually accomplish any of this, and essay overload (link through Brian\u2019s post to <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blognetwork\/tenuredradical\/2012\/12\/grading-in-the-age-of-mechanical-reproduction\/\">http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blognetwork\/tenuredradical\/2012\/12\/grading-in-the-age-of-mechanical-reproduction\/<\/a>) is a huge problem for both students and instructors, especially in a situation where almost none of the students are native speakers of English. I agree with Tenured Radical who asks why students should put effort into writing essays that they don\u2019t want to write and we don\u2019t want to read.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve used Facebook and discussion lists to encourage out-of-class conversation but this is still very text-based work (and I suspect, already old school). \u00a0As someone with a literature background, I\u2019m certainly not talking about doing away with textual analysis, but I\u2019d also like to give students a chance to react to their reading in non-textual ways or in ways that combine text and non-text.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019d love to discuss using technology to create more meaningful assignments and assessments. I want students to learn by doing and for there to be a connection between their in-class and out-of-class lives. I also want to be interested in what they\u2019re producing! Traditional essay assignments don\u2019t usually accomplish any of this, and essay overload &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.briancroxall.net\/digitalpedagogy\/2012\/12\/31\/meaningful-assignments\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Meaningful Assignments&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-session-proposals","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.briancroxall.net\/digitalpedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.briancroxall.net\/digitalpedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.briancroxall.net\/digitalpedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.briancroxall.net\/digitalpedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.briancroxall.net\/digitalpedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.briancroxall.net\/digitalpedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169,"href":"https:\/\/www.briancroxall.net\/digitalpedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.briancroxall.net\/digitalpedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.briancroxall.net\/digitalpedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.briancroxall.net\/digitalpedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}