The article, Preparing Students to Learn Without Us explains how children are perfectly are capabale of desinging their own course of lesson planning through individualized learning. Core content is expressed and applied through mediums of the child's interests such as listening, debating, reading a book. Secondly, the article highlights how students learn more in depth according to their passions. To do this, individual assignements can be given according to specific learning styles.
An ideal example of providing personalized learning in a still, monitored enviornment is in the following quote: "Using Google Docs, students continually update their progress, and she provides regular feedback. Students also give one another feedback on their plans as they go. Everyone follows a rubric that covers such areas as standards, learning outcomes, artifact explanation, blog posts, learning activities, work ethic, and research." In this way, students are not only voicing their own opinions and reflecting with each other, but the teacher can still keep up with the work while instiling values such as work ethic and research. However, the teacher's monitoring of the learning enviornment is just enough to allow the students to be FREE and learn on their OWN.
So far, in our class, I have not seen a great deal of personalized learning. Hopefully, as the year progresses, we will get to indivdualize our learning through exploring our passions in film topics/genres, filming and editing technqiues, and how to write about film. I hope Mr. May doesn't give strict rubrics, but rather guidelines to follow in order to help us find out about what we like. The blogs will also facilitate this through peer reviewing.
In terms of the class curriculum, I would like to learn about lighting and angle composition techniques for emphasizing mood and emotion in the overall story of a film. I would like to learn this by analyzing these techniques in films and then applying observed skills into my/our own work.
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