8. Student Roles for Engaged Learning

• Explorer. Students discover concepts and connections and apply skills by interacting with the physical world, materials, technology, and other people. Such discovery-oriented exploration provides students with opportunities to make decisions while figuring out the components/attributes of events, objects, people, or concepts.
• Cognitive Apprentice. Students become cognitive apprentices when they observe, apply, and refine through practice the thinking processes used by real-world practitioners. In this model, students reflect on their practice in diverse situations and across a range of  tasks, and they articulate the common elements of their experiences.
• Producers of Knowledge. Students generate products for themselves and their community that synthesize and integrate knowledge and skills. Through the use of technology, students increasingly are able to make significant contributions to the world's knowledge.