Some teachers at my school are participating in a class that we are creating called “Self-Directed Learning”. Each person can pick an area of interest and build their own learning. We’re expecting kids to be able to do this without a whole lot of tools so the goal of the class is to become comfortable with the process as adults so we can better grasp how kids construct knowledge. Already, this R/W Web class is a model in self-directed learning. It helps to have a facilitator who is comfortable with this sort of format-one who can say, some people who want to work with the instructor in the front of the room, everyone else could work at the back of the room or out in the hall. People are tucked into their computers and multi-tasking to the max. Not every instructor/teacher is ok with this.

For my class, I’m self-directing myself to learn about web 2.0 tools!