For this particular project, I read the article World Without Walls: Learning Well with Others, by Will Richardson. The article discusses how schools today need to embrace technology, and more specifically the internet, as a source for learning and work. Richardson gives examples of teachers who have done this, as well as students who have prospered because of this. He is generally in favor of using the internet for schooling; however, he also cautions people to be safe on the internet and make sure the content they are seeing is accurate and safe. He writes that the internet and learning on the internet is "about being able to form safe , effective networks and communities around those explorations," and  "trust and be trusted in the process". This is a very important point, because many times people who try and find information on the internet do not filter their sources, and end up with inaccurate information or something that is unsafe. This, to me, is the biggest flaw in the idea of learning off of the internet. It is difficult to trust anything on the internet, because there is virtually no way to completely verify whether someone is telling the truth about something they put on the internet. I thought it was interesting and surprising that the author acknowledged that issue, because generally I find that most people seem to trust themselves to sort through real or fake things on the internet. In the context of this class in particular, I trust that we will be able to filter our information enough to make connected and internet-based learning a useful reality. I think that connected learning would be very helpful when it comes to learning about editing techniques for film, as well as acting for film, both of which I am relatively unfamiliar with and would like to learn more about.


World Without Walls Article