Produsage Project - Look who is teaching now

My professor challenged our class to blog about our ideas for our Produsage Project and tweet the link. We can then give each other feedback on our ideas. Challenge accepted!

My idea for my produsage project is to have students do a curation assignment using Storify. I loved the process I just went through for the Knowledge Sharing and Tracking Project. I also love letting students be the teachers in the classroom. Logistically, it would be a multi-day lesson for the first week of school. The plan could be adapted for any grade level and subject area. My example will be for secondary math. The purpose of the curation is to review a topic from the previous year's curriculum. The teacher provides a list of carefully chosen topics and students work in small groups to create a collection of resources to review their chosen topic. The topics should be those essential for learning progression, the foundations for building the current year's new knowledge. Each collection should include at least 3 resources and each resource must be annotated by the students. For assessment, each group will create a game on Kahoot covering their topic. Students are required to view all of the class projects and make comments about the resources or leave questions about the concepts. On the final day of the project, students play each group's assessment game to demonstrate mastery of the concepts being reviewed.

My rational for this project is that many teachers have a hard time deciding what to do the first week of class (in secondary education), and most students need a review of the important topics from the previous course after the long summer break. This activity helps on both fronts. Another reason for the project is it allows teachers to begin developing relationships with students, as the teacher is free to roam and interact with students instead of delivering content. It will also help classmates begin learning how to work together. These are important components of classroom management for teachers to set at the beginning of each school year.

The prototype of student work will include a story (on Storify) on how to change fractions into decimals and a game (on Kahoot) covering the content from the story.

So, what do you think? Please let me know in the comments. Thanks!