The article "Preparing Students to Learn Without Us" is about the idea that soon, with the abundant access to the internet among young people, teaching through that medium will become inevitable. It covers both the advantages and disadvantages of this development, ultimately giving instructions to the reader about what to do and what to avoid while conducting research through blogging.
In the article, the author wrote, "personalizing learning means allowing students to choose their own paths through the curriculum," which was a quote that really spoke to me because this is the way I have always viewed the ideal of learning: having access to the tools necessary to succeed in doing whatever personally suits you, and what will help you learn and grow as a person. Standardizing curriculum is a concept that has never made sense to me in the way that education works in the United States.
I like the idea of using the blogs to connect with others working on projects like the ones we're doing, because it adds another perspective. It's interesting to learn through both your teacher, your peers, and other sources, because you can find a variety of viewpoints on any one issue, which I find fascinating.
I'm interested in writing and directing films in this class, so those might be things I could research through blogging.
(Diigo isn't working on my computer right now for some reason, so I'll get the annotations up sometime this weekend, probably Monday.)
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