Decision Making
Interpersonal
Interpersonal
Decision Making is a strategy in which students are tasked with deciding between a certain amount of alternatives to accomplish a specific task. Depending on the situation, the teacher may provide the alternatives and criteria for the decision to students, or allow them to create one or both of them on their own, as long as the purpose of the lesson remains achievable.
Decision Making takes the idea of evaluation and takes it to another level by allowing students to create their own criteria by which to complete their evaluations. Doing so helps student personalize the process and engages them through ownership.
As with other self-expressive strategies, technology’s best use in this situation is to provide a vehicle by which students can articulate the reasoning behind the decision they made. Students can create a video, a screencast, an essay, or even an infographic to support the decision they’ve made, based on the established criteria. Allow students to be creative with technology here. They don’t need to be pigeonholed into a specific tool or medium.