Article Groups Were Fire

Young Thug, Blue Scholars and Cunnilinguists? Crap what did I get myself into. Hip-hop isn’t my choice in genre but it was my choice for article groups. I didn’t know anything about different rappers or artists. It’s not that I don’t like hip-hop it just doesn’t grab my attention like it does with everyone else. But this isn’t the point.

The point is that I learned so much from not just my article group but from all the other article groups as well. I learned about the connection between poetry and rap. I learned about how important it is to engage students with their learning and how old methods aren’t always the best way to teach students.

I enjoyed the Maker group. It was fun working under some pressure and no real guidelines. The only problem I had though was that I would have loved to actually have a little more guidelines or an example of what to do. That’s just me as a person though and I understand the whole point of having to come up with your own idea with whatever tools are given.

Working in a team has always been a problem for me. I’m not really into relying on other people to get a project done. But for this class it hasn’t  been a problem. Working in a team where all our interests were in the same place made it even better. We all collaborated with each other and shared our ideas without any negative feedback. I felt that I learned a lot more with teaching each other than I do from some of the teacher centered classrooms that I have.