text: Each student learns differently. I myself like to be hands-on with things, I have a easier time comparing what we're learning to something mundane I did during the morning. I see the teacher designed-assignment as a hallway with a door at each end. While the student-designed assignment is a room with doors all over the place. This next word represents the seed in the previously mentioned flower simile. Choices, something we are all given everyday at every second in life. They matter a lot because I'm 99.9% sure that not every student in each class is the same. Each one is different. They all have different interests, hobbies, views and memories. So to give these students all the same type of assignment is unfair. One student might be exceptional and ace the project, knowing every in and out of the topic presented to them. While the one next to him won't be interested in the assignment at all. They'll lack the motivation to work. A few might not understand the project completely. They might have a hard time putting together what they know into these assignments. When they turn in the work, it won't show that they're learning even if they are. To many people these might seem like extremes or specific examples but, they're not. Plenty of students are like this. I'm one of them. Not always but, I can only put up with so much creative restriction. Now compare this to a student-designed assignment. I'm assuming we will all use the same rubric used for teacher-designed assignments. Changing the standards is a bit unfair but the materials to reach them, That's fine.