Excellent Educators

Excellent Educator 

       Matt Cuathron has a very unique classroom that he allows his students to become very interactive with his students and also allow his students to feel some control of the education the want. He does this through Apple challenge- Based module that help his students to create inspired work. With these modules the students are allowed to pick challenges that are collaborate, authentic, and competitive to decide on how there assignments and projects will be done. As I have written in my pass blogs this style of teaching that allows students to pick their path of doing work motivates the students into doing their work because  they pick how they do it and in what order. The students are doing the same work and probably even more do to the fact that they want to do the work. In Mr. Cuathron class the students do not just learn art but they learn the business work of art, the internet, portfolios, and other material. The great thing about this type of teaching is that in almost all the cases students just don't learn the classic but with technology integrated also. So the students are learning more than just the main material. I feel this keeps the student hungry for more. Matt works with artist around the world to create more of these challenges to for students to be more interactive in the module.
 
        As a future teacher I love to read how teachers allow there students to be free in a sense on how they do there assignments and projects that I had mention earlier in this blog I believe that studetns get the most this way. I would love to use a program where I can work with historians or a museum that creates or collaborates to help build education modules that students can work with and use technology to finish there projects. This would be a great help in my history class because many students don't understand or its hard for them to understand history with out experience the ideas that are trying to get across. With this the students can gain interactive experience that put them in situations of the past and would make them analyze it as if they were there.

In the end of the article form this teacher, Matt, we see that he does not only try to help his students but the rest of the people that like to access this system for educational purposes and not just but also the contributors benefit form this because they get to see what works and what does in article for learns of the trade. So it benefits the learner and the learned.

This goes with communication and Collaboration because students interact with artist around the world that design this modules and challenges for these students. But not just that they communicate and work with their peers to work and complete these modules that they have chosen to do in their class room.


 Cuathron, Matt. "Learning and Leading - November 2012." Learning and Leading - November 2012. N.p., Nov. 2012. Web. 07 Nov. 2012. <http://www.learningandleading-digital.com/learning_leading/201211>.