American Revolution From YouTube #2

Some of the current thought on Technology Integration Instruction is so dated. Graduate courses and traditional in house staff development trumpet webquests, differentiated roles and tasks for committee members, dreaded rubrics, trackstar, filamentality, blah, blah. There is nothing inherently wrong with this, except the turnaround time from teaching process to product is painfully slow and kids and teachers with attention deficit problems (that makes about 90% of us) get lost. Just give kids a digital still and video camera and turn them loose on a topic that interests them. Youtube is chock full of very imaginative student created stuff. When a kid wants to learn a skill to produce a certain effect in a project, that's the opportunity to do the instruction. Or, we as teachers should anticipate what the kids might want to create in such an undertaking and teach those skills. Is that backwards planning or learning by design? I don't know, but I'd rather not label it as such, because then the imaginatively challenged will find some boring way to make a living selling it.