Personalized Learning Article Reflection

For this assignment I read the article "Preparing Students to Learn Without Us" by Will Richardson. It wa about the new concept of personalized learning for students. Personalized learning/personal learning is basically where a student creates their own ways of finding out information while still meeting state standards. Students in a few high schools with this program create their own lessons and how they are going to learn and present the information. This allows the student to learn about something that really speaks to them and so they're more interested in it. "Through these activities, the student aligned her work to the standards she chose." is an important quote from this article because it summarizes the whoe idea of personalized learning.

I was surprised that this concept has been introduced to several schools around the country so quickly. I think that personalized learning is a great idea and that it could be an easy thing to do in this class. We could all choose something about filmmaking that we find interesting and then go off on our own to find ways to learn and reflect what we've discovered. It would give us all an opportunity to learn what we wanted which would definitely make at least me more interested in school. I would definitely like to learn more about both the editing and the actual filming aspects of making a film. Instead of spending a few classes each on scriptwriting, filming, directing, and editing, this would give me a chance to have more time to learn about the things that I really care about.

Here's a link to my annotated article