NoteMaster Research

RESEARCH: Importance of effective critiquing to create personal-centered classroom.

I chose this article because it is a perfect example of the need for purposeful planning. I choose NoteMaster as a technology, not a a way to ditigalize note taking, but for alturnative project, like a digital critique. If teacher are not aware of everychoice made should be purposefully and built to achieve a certain goal. After reading this article, i hope teachers will consider the importance of creativity in classroom as well as purposeful lesson planning. Here is quote from the article describing the benefits and goals of a studio based classroom that is focused on the individual.

“This focus on developing self-regulation of learning, not just short run behavioral compliance; develop and work through personal teacher–student relationships rather than impersonal bureaucracies; be[come] a caring socializer rather than a remote authority figure; emphasize ethics and ideals rather than rules and sanctions; emphasize cueing before the fact rather than nagging after the fact. (p. 1)”

Recently schools are starting to realize the importance of student focus approaches to teaching. This in turn is creating a person'centeredness that is fostered in studio based classroom, like a fine art course. Activities that focus on individuals are individual art study, field trips, collaborative critiquing sessions, access to expert in field, panel discussions, and access to personal work space.

The article goes on to emphasize the importance of a students own physical space. With this space students feel more welcome and appreciated. When compared to other high school classrooms where students only occupy a empty desk for one class period and then they are herded to next period. The sense of home and ownership is built more in a studio focused classroom. With this ownership comes pride in ones space and in turn his or her space. A student would be more willing to work on own project, in own desk, with access to material and experts in field.

Another aspect of studio based classrooms that how individual space, ownship, and developing skills can create a educational machine that is proud of what they are producing and learning becomes an accomplishment. Creating this physical space alone is not enough, teachers need to remember the importance of lesson plans. Teachers still have the important task of inspiring and focusing the students on their task. Studio based classroom only succeed with dedication of staff but they can create a very beautiful attitude out of their students.


Recently the educational system has seen some focus away from teacher focused classroom to a more personalized-centered approaches.
Person-centeredness begins in SBL with a variety of inquiry strategies including field trips, individual and collaborative study inside the student’s own work space, and expert lectures and panel discussions.

Physical space. The initial proposal making of SBL takes place in a student’s own individual work space. In some ways, the shared physical space of a studio environment looks much like a well-used, well-resourced school building. In both settings, learners have access to a work space, learning resources (books, computers, media, manipulative), and experts in the field of study. The shared portion of the studio is not a particular desk but rather the shared resources used for inquiry within the learning space. Like a rich, well-resourced classroom, a studio allows students access too many tools of inquiry, like books, computers, special technologies, and experts.