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teenage boy was serendipitously reunited with his father after years
of mutual wandering. Joshua built a life size 3D recreation of a hobo
camp, utilizing several full size Christmas trees, a guitar, and a
painted cardboard campfire (among many other things). He brought
the scene to life by acting the part of a hobo, imparting life lessons
on the children that visited. Each contribution was as unique as the
student who created it. The multimodality of this unit grew
organically, as each student-curator gravitated to a medium that
best fit their authorial purpose.
It may seem counterintuitive,
but the more autonomy the
students were granted, the more rigorously they engineered their
own learning trajectories. Traditionalists may wonder if perhaps
Joshua did nothing more than create a diorama-on-steroids or if
Bobby simply wasted a week recording train whistle noises. Maybe
a research paper would have been more worthwhile, after all. As I
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