With each running of the CHI competition, the bar has been raised on both the quality and depth of the projects. It has also increased the focus on “winning.”
Co-Creating Education
There is a disconnection between goals for the learning environment and implementation. Everyone wants the classroom to be a place where students are engaged. Jerome Bruner once argued that we should create an atmosphere where students can “experience success and failure not as reward and punishment, but as information.” As theorist and feminist Nel Noddings put it: “There should be no penalty for getting things wrong.” Yet every grade inherently does just that.