third post

I read the article " Preparing students to learn without us," by Will Richardson.  This article explains a classroom where the students come up with their own individual curriculum.  It allows a student to find a topic that they are interested in and explore it deeply. The teacher steers the students on the right path, giving them good resources where they can find information, but it is an mostly independent project. They use diigo and record their thoughts and readings on sources such as blogs or google docs.  I found it surprising how hard it must be for the teacher. Like they said in the article, instead of having one set topic for projects, they have 25. The teacher would probably have to change their rubric a bit for every students because every project is different. Richardson says "Students keep blogs, which Smith regularly comments on, where they archive their work, reflect on their learning, and connect with potential teachers outside the classroom."  This is relevant for our own film class because this is what we should be doing for our blogs. Our blogs are a place where we can dive into an interesting topic then use our blogs to reflect. Self-learning using blogs is a good way for us to learn about anything we want.  In most classes, everyone in the class is learning about one common topic, but here we have the freedom to explore whatever we are interested. Personally, I am interested in learning about Journalism.




The annotated link for the article: http://diigo.com/0sxz4