Weekly Reading #11

In this video Sarah Stuteville talks about how her and her friends are about to graduate college wit ha degree that is "worthless". What they decide to do is to do the one thing they want to do most, travel the world and report on the stories they find the most intriguing. Chapter 8 is all about students using current events in the classroom and talking about different types of news that they want to report on. It is about reporting what the students believe to be news worthy by justifying it in their own way. It is an authentic learning activity because it can be used in any classroom and the students can report on an authentic topic. It can also be of news that takes place as a world news story or even a local news story. What motivated Sarah is that she could report on what she wanted, the ability to have a choice in what you want to do is a powerful method in teaching because it gives the student control over their learning.