In a nutshell, "Preparing Students To Learn Without Us" by Will Richardson states that customized learning has already been proven to work, and that it's the issue of changing teachers teaching methods that will hold the concept back. Many students, including the author's own son, have found success with a personalized lesson plan that centers around a passion of theirs. It takes a specialized kind of teacher to aid the student in their learning, however, and the style necessary is fairly unorthodox compared to the rigid learning and testing standards that are commonplace now.
One part of this article that struck me as surprising was that, as the author says, "personalization is an expectation" in education these days. At least in my schooling experience, there has not been a large amount of flexibility in the way we learn, besides division into advanced groups. Hopefully, in this media class, we get to do a little bit more of this, perhaps by having a good amount of freedom in our projects. Certainly, we need guidelines, but instead of laying out a very specific objective, we could receive a broader one and in the process, enjoy it more.
We could also use these blogs to keep track of our own passions, and share them with others. For example, I love sports writing and sports journalism, so I could find blogs or sites that discuss this and follow them. Here is a link to my Diigo page.
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