Erick Gordon, founding director of the Student Press Initiative, illustrates collaborations with teachers and students that have motivated students to invest themselves in the process and product of writing, including research, oral history, revision, and an immersion in and commitment to community.

Reluctant learners made plastic geometric shapes for use in classroom activities. (SD)

A discussion of how peer - prepared learning activity packages are used. (HB)

Describes the project at the University of North Carolina Department of Biochemistry to determine whether validated learning materials could be generated by students for the yearly course, and to determine the effects of self-instruction and student authorship upon the class. (Author/PG)

Describes the five major steps for creating a peer-produced book for the reading class.

This paper discusses some of the problems encountered by students in an introductory children's literature course as they planned and produced brief television presentations centered around picture books suitable for an audience of young children. A rationale for the project is provided as well as a detailed review of the planning process. The…

The two documents are collections of writings, tape transcriptions, and reflections of students at the Community Learning Center. It is the intention of the center students and staff to share these efforts and feelings with others interested in adult education. The entries range in length from four-line poems to one-page essays; the topics cover…

Using an interactive computer system called NEWBASIC/CATALYST, both students and teachers can act as authors of programs. NEWBASIC/CATALYST incorporates an implementation of BASIC, system-level interactive features, and a general capability for extension through use-oriented function attachment. Interacting at the system level, students can mix…

Some student activities using still and motion pictures in class work are described. In elementary grades, pupils brought in family photographs to illustrate concepts like "family" and "friendship" and then wrote stories centering around the pictures for their classmates to read. They made movies illustrating concepts like "light." When students…

Four new Project Solo modules are presented. A module on computer graphing with an x-y plotter explains the format for input to the computer, demonstrates the effect of scaling, and gives several on-line exercises to produce graphs. Several student-written programs in elementary and advanced mathematics, French, and U.S. history show how peer…

Both students and social scientists criticize the American educational system because (1) course content is not presented in a manner relevant to real-world situations and (2) course structures typically have characteristics that inhibit rather than promote individual motivation to learn. This case study describes a student-originated course…

Written by four teams of doctoral students at Ball State University, the scenarios presented describe a hypothetical sequence of events, procedures, or new patterns involving the English curriculum of the future. The scenarios are: I. An English Curriculum for the Year 2000; II. MED-85, a Humanistic Communications Scenario; III. A.D. Two Double-O…