October 29, 2012

  • Want A Sample?

    I wonder if the fact that I make previous student samples available to current students - these are papers/projects that earned As & are found in our online classroom platform in the Document Sharing folders - is killing their creativity. They rely too much on them, possibly. A student today wanted to see a sample P4 project even though the student had the list of requirements. And, in the past, my online students have asked for samples for P6 which is the final portfolio (nicknamed the shortfolio due to its length); they, too, have the requirements in front of them. 

    It's really strange, somehow. Am I making it all too easy at first? And then when I give them something without samples, they aren't prepared to think on their own?