Thought provoking EDUCAUSE Quarterly Article: Death to the Digital Dropbox: Rethinking Student Privacy and Public Performance

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Death to the Digital Dropbox: Rethinking Student Privacy and Public Performance

By Patrick R. Lowenthal and David Thomas

Key takeaways include:

• Requiring students to submit work privately using a digital dropbox (or even worse, e-mail) can be a destructive pedagogical practice.
• Students benefit from public performance and public critique because people have to perform in the "real world" and are regularly subject to critique.
• Online faculty should strive to incorporate authentic, real-world types of experiences in the online courses they teach — including public performance and the accompanying public feedback

Read the complete article here: http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Quarterly/EDUCAUSEQuarterlyMagazineVolum/DeathtotheDigitalDropboxRethin/213672

Did you know that the EWU Blackboard service has several tools that can allow students and others to view and provide input on student work? These functions are not enabled by default but can be easily employed by Bb Instructors. Tools such as the "self and peer review," "Groups," and "Discussion Board" can create social learning interactions. Contact EWU's eLearning consultants (Dave Dean, Grant Ramsay and Jeff Healy) if you'd like help using these tools in your instruction.