Connecting the Lonely Profession
The article states, "Education in the 21st century should be all about differentiation. That means customized learning to match interests, experiences, and purposes of learners—including teachers." This is stating that students need to learn through connections to their own life and current events going on in society. As a teacher you cannot expect a student to learn an event in history without relating that event to their life now in some way. The idea of using a wiki for students to write and revise their work is a great way to get them to understand that not everything they write is finished the first time they write it. When using technology to teach the students about writing it encourages them to actually participate and want to learn as well as allow other students to give them their comments.
The idea of collaborative work encourages students to not only participate, but understand the consequences of not doing their job. If the leader doesn't lead, everything is unorganized and if the researcher doesn't research, their will be no evidence. Working as team helps not only the students, but the teachers as well. Teachers can collaborate with other teachers and try to do the same Big Idea (Umbrella Topic) and their students will actually want to learn in other subjects because they have background knowledge of the topic from their other classes.
