In addition, collective learning was the main goal in Mrs. Crowdsourcing was a huge part of the Duke iPod experiment and was the major factor in the success of the program. This passage ties in with the entire essay and the overall idea of changing the education system. She includes herself along with her readers to encourage them that everyone can work together to generate new knowledge, including herself. Davidson uses "we" in order to stress this idea even more. Davidson again stresses the importance of collective learning and ends on a hopeful, positive note by encouraging readers that we can learn by working together.
How formal education is generally a professor telling you what is important and what knowledge to pay attention to. The structure of the paragraph starts off explaining how crowdsourced thinking is different from relying on experts and continues on to connect it to the education system. Davidson goes into depth about how not even the most expert individual can accomplish what many people can collectively accomplish. The important words in this passage are expert, collectively, and obviously crowdsourcing. The passage chosen for close reading is a short explanation of what crowdsourcing is and why it is entirely essential in today's education system. They came up with so many uses for the device and "revolutionized the democratization of knowledge" (Davidson 54) For the first time, knowledge could be accessed by everyone. She explains the Duke iPod learning experiment where the students were given the freedom to direct their own learning.
In "Project Classroom Makeover" Davidson explores the idea of educating students in unconventional ways. Every sentence in the passage is impactful and intellectual. The first time I read the text I actually circled the passage selected as a good one for close reading. This reading as a whole was extremely interesting to me.
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