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Workshop Description: Facilitating students’ development into “global citizens” often involves bringing the world to the class: helping students learn about the world through content provided for them. This workshop will describe how flipping this method—bringing the class to the world—can facilitate transformative learning by asking students to develop knowledge and skills by completing projects with a public audience and a socially conscious purpose.
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Elon Teaching and Learning Conference 2015

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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BRINGING THE CLASS TO THE WORLD

Incorporating Authentic Audiences and Purposes into ASSIGNMENTS
Workshop Description: Facilitating students’ development into “global citizens” often involves bringing the world to the class: helping students learn about the world through content provided for them. This workshop will describe how flipping this method—bringing the class to the world—can facilitate transformative learning by asking students to develop knowledge and skills by completing projects with a public audience and a socially conscious purpose.
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...writing activities should be designed with genuine purposes and audiences in mind in order to foster flexibility and rhetorical versatility. Standardized writing curricula or assessment instruments that emphasize formulaic writing for nonauthentic audiences will not reinforce the habits of mind and the experiences necessary for success as students encounter the writing demands of postsecondary education.

--Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing (NCTE, CWPA, NWP 2011)

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Best practices for literacy instruction and learning--real reading and writing for real audiences and real purposes, not just school-sponsored and often inauthentic activities and artificial audiences and purposes--appreciate a more humane vision of education that values agency, rigor, civic responsibility, authenticity, and democracy.

-- "Subversive Acts of Revision: Writing and Justice" (Bruce, 2013)

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Students can Create...
PSAs
Op-Ed/Op-Video
Memes
Contests
Tumblrs
Social Media Campaigns
Posters

What do these look like?

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DESIGNING REAL-WORLD ASSIGNMENTS

  • What are the authentic genres, purposes, audiences, and publics in your discipline?
  • How do you connect your beautiful questions to purposes and audiences that exist outside your classroom?
  • What nonauthentic assignment in your curriculum can you change right now?
  • What will you ask your students to create?
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QUESTIONS

Follow up with me at ppatch@elon.edu.
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Paula Patch

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