Again this week I thoroughly enjoyed the process of working through the Plantation Letters learning module but hated the readings about the learning theory. Maybe something’s wrong with me, but I just get angry reading that kind of on and on and on and on kind of explanations when I feel like it could be explained so easily with an annotated example. When working through the letters and other materials, I was highly engaged to the point that I attempted to read the original manuscripts just to get a more accurate feel for the writer and his intentions. Kevin did a great job partnering modern situations to the plight of the early American slaves. In my mind it created another idea of poverty as being an enslavement and just as relevant to the modern world as it was back in our country’s infancy.
I think it would take a lot to create a learning module using CFT. Gathering the resources even using the internet seems overwhelming. It makes me wonder if there wouldn’t be a huge market for creating these modules for individual school districts. Maybe someone could set up a web based company and take submissions from teachers and districts to create the modules for a fee. Then an entire research team could go to work designing the module. It seems to me that it would take that kind of input from many minds to make it work.
