PLN: Week 6- Post 12

I read a recent article titled "Computer Safety and Security Wiki", written by Vicki A. Davis, this article talks about how she is having her students in her current classes, get online and edit work done by previous students of previous years.

In this post, the importance that I puller out was that doing this exercise with her students allows them to look at how other people their age do things which allows them to increase their ability to do good work on their own because they see what is expected of them through the other students work. Vicki said how the point is that students should not only create from scratch, but they should also edit other students work, which allows them to ask themselves questions on how they can improve that piece of work.

This article relates to me because, as a student I am asked to edit things and proofread other people's, and my own work, so I can make it the best it can be and through this we see this is also how Vicki feels as a teacher. I think that starting from scratch is good, but I also think that editing someone else's work is sometimes even more beneficial. The reason being that you can see what exactly is expected of you in your work because you can see what the other person was graded on. On the other hand, starting from scratch allows what you are doing to be completely original and something you can call your own.

This article relates to the world because in our world today for adults at work, they constantly have people analyzing their work and it is most beneficial for them as well, to have someone edit their work before it is analyzed. Sometimes when you are working you don't catch your own mistakes, but if you have someone else look at you work, maybe they will catch the mistakes you missed, allowing you to have a top notch performance.