Sunday, March 16, 2014

A Student Website on Education in Puerto Rico

I have a lot of ideas about a student website for the topic of education in Puerto Rico.  I would prefer however, that the students take the initiative and design the site.  I would like to see a cool name and logo, with an attractive Home page that invites visitors to check it out.  Maybe a slide of eye-catching images of students and schools in PR.  I think focusing the site on problems or solutions or dividing into sections such as that might be helpful to visitors.  It might be limited to just English education, since this is an English class.  I would love to see individual or pair projects, with dynamic content developed: such as a video, or animated slide show, or photos.  Profiling students, teachers or programs using innovative techniques or approaches might be fun to see.  I would love to read interviews with students, or see results of questionnaires on students opinions. I also would like some historical perspective:  I suspect that the history of education in Puerto Rico plays an important role in how the system is today. Before the US took over, the only education was elite, private and Catholic from what I understand. It would be nice to have this information in an article and then discuss how elements of this beginning are still present even in the public system.  Most importantly, I would like to see the students own this project and make their voices heard on this topic.  I think our future depends on getting student more engaged in their education and in changing it for the better.

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