Students as Information Explorers

In his "One Big Head" podcast for June 20, 2005 , educational technology coordinator Jeff Moore suggests that, rather than give students highly structured and prepackaged content, teachers should encourage students to become explorers and judges of information in a content area.

Example: Instead of walking a web design class through a set of projects decided beforehand, have students analyze the XHTML 1.0 specification at the World Wide Web Consortium and evaluate web pages with reference to a rubric. Then have the students design their own projects.