messy+definition+work

Messy Definition Work

 * engagement is personalized, meaningful learning for (mostly) intrinsic reasons–persisting and persevering through challenge and difficulty to develop deep understanding and increased process skills. [if it's not instrinsic, is it compliance instead?]

( I put some thoughts in the discussion area...) **

Characteristics of Authentic Engagement **with Learning** [Going back to Rob's point about "engagement," let's connect engagement w/ its purpose here. What do you think?]

1. Students see their work as personally meaningful. 2. Students feel challenged by the rigor of the work, **//persisting when tasks are difficult because they deem the tasks worthwhile//**. [DELETEin difficult tasks because of the tasks’ worth to the students.} 3. Students master content through project-based, inquiry-driven learning with access to multiple types of media, **//including//** experts. 4. Students work and learn collaboratively and socially, //**both online and off**.// 5. Students evaluate for and select the best tools for their work (and are free to use them) **delete words in parentheses--redundant-if they can choose, they are free to use them**). 6. Students **//choose//** to revise work until it reflects their internal vision of what they learned and how they want to represent it. [Changed "present" to "represent," since work can be authentically engaging w/o being published. Thoughts?]

Characteristics of Authentic Work

1. Student work is published for an authentic audience //[outside the classroom// Delete] [What do we mean by "authentic audience?" Would "stake-holder" audience better communicate the idea that the audience is invested in the students' work?] 2. Students receive feedback on their work from experts in the discipline before and after publication. 3. Students revise work until it shows mastery of content and follows //habits of mind of experts in the discipline// [DELETE experts’ guidelines.] 4. Student work benefits their community.

Last update of classroots.org/authenticengagement: 7/27/09.