The article that I read, World Without Walls: Learning Well With Others, was possibly the most repetitive article I have ever read. In begins by raising the example of a young 11 year old volunteer who gets all of her ideas for projects from comments on her blog. The article then goes on, completely forgetting the girl, to explain how the world is changing and teaching style must be adapted to cope with the giant flow of information. Fair enough, go on. The article at this point has unfortunately run out of information. It basically makes the same point over and over again with only one point at the end where it says that teacher's mustn't be so harsh on online study groups. In this article it made one point that I thought was very important and completely symbolized why the educational system isn't ready for online education. That quote was "being produced by amateur writers," the article is basically saying not everything that is online is actually true. Unfortunately many kids believe that everything online is true, for this reason I believe that the in class form is still far superior. To the article's benefit I did find the part at the beginning about the 11 year old blogger quite surprising. I wouldn't have imagined that someone that young would get that idea and actually create a blog, viewed by people all around the world, all by her self.

Connected learning...is...an interesting concept. I personally don't believe it is majorly effective unless its a project. I don't believe students will go out of there way to learn about something in there free time for the sole reason to write a post about it. Students are expected to be in clubs, to play sports, to hang out with friends, and also to have 2-3 hours of homework ever night. I don't believe that as well as all this students will write on their blogs unless it is an assignment, and therefore we must do it. We simply don't have time.

Personally I believe it would be really cool to link my blog to both sports blog of some type as well as some sort of history thing, because I really enjoy certain aspects of history, such as more medieval/ancient, more guessery less knowledge. Unfortunately we don't do to much of this in class.

My article

Seeking Glory, and Fighting Evil, With a Paddle

by A. O. Scott

The New York Times

The movie review I read was not a very good example, the author, Scott, obviously had a hatred for the movie and therefore his review had a lot of pathos as Ms Cullen would say. It was very emotional and because of this the author seemed to just rant in no particular order. He begins with a quick comparison  between Balls of Fury and Hotrod, basically saying that they are the same and really bad. Then he talks a little about some of the characters, such as Feng, and calls them bad too. He finishes up with a short description of the movie, only short because as he put it, "since it would take me longer to recount the story than it took the screenwriters." He doesn't touch on cinematic aspects at all. 


I believe we must take his example as an example of what not to do. In our projects we should keep our critiques emotionless when it came to describing the aspects of film. When providing one's opinion one can use emotion but, as in this review, emotion during the aspects of film simply clouds one's judgement and doesn't allow one to fairly critique and get their point across. 

My annotated link




BYE!

Andreas

Hey,


My name is Andreas... Uhm. This is my first blog, so guess here it goes... I am a CAP 10 student and Blair High school, after attending a whole mash up of elementary schools, and going to SSI. I play soccer and basketball. I really enjoy the directing/cinematography aspect of movies, because I believe that no matter how bad the story and acting is good cinematography can make any movie good. For example in Hanna, the story and acting was okay at best, but the filming made it an incredible film. In middle school I was in LCL...run by Mr Mayo! Anyway, in this class I had two projects which I both really enjoy and was proud of was the documentary i did for my passion project, a film of the life of Drogba and Mandela. I also did a claymation with Connor which was great fun, because with claymations one can go outside of the constraints of the classroom. With the clay one can make whatever they wish, we for example we made a car race, something that could not be done in the real world with real people acting.

These blogs are an....interesting...idea. I believe it could be quite helpful in contacting and organizing group projects such as the change project. I also believe it could be quite helpful in contacting teachers, we ought to make a forum that students can post questions that the teachers will answer. This would allow the answers to be open to other students who may have he same questions.

Byeeeeee,

Andreas