{"id":445,"date":"2006-10-23T07:39:14","date_gmt":"2006-10-23T07:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=445"},"modified":"2011-03-20T21:16:31","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T13:16:31","slug":"listening-to-learner-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/learning\/listening-to-learner-voice-445","title":{"rendered":"Listening to Learner Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Futurelab has an interesting article about <i>Learner Voice<\/i> (no longer available), which is an initiative that advocates an institutionalised requirement to <i>listen to learners<\/i>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What tools or methods, if any, are being used for listening to learners' voices?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Does the school or college offer a range of different types and levels of engagement to understand and respond to the needs of learners?<\/li>\n<li>Are there different opportunities and ways for learners to have an input and an impact on decisions?<\/li>\n<li>Are there alternative or more effective ways of involving learners that have not yet been used?<\/li>\n<li>Can new technologies provide alternative approaches that empower learners?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There is a lot fear about the concept of letting learners have a say in classroom decisions and curriculum content. The fear is that there might be a loss of \"face\" and a loss of control. But it doesn't have to be that way. One pre-requisite for passion in learning is that the learner has ownership of the learning - and that requires the educator to listen to the learners' voices.<\/p>\n<p>So allow blogs and allow wikis. Better yet, build them intelligently into the learning design.<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\"><a href=\"#respond\" id=\"comms\">Be the first to comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Futurelab has an interesting article about <i>Learner Voice<\/i>, that advocates an organised and institutionalised requirement to listen to learners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}