"If students designed their own school" video response

     P.E, and lunch are the closest things us students would probably be able to run without the guidance of a teacher. The video "if students designed their own school" showed how students could actually run their "course/school" without the guidance of a teacher. Normally in P.E you would be able to play sports and just run around without the teachers guiding through every step. As in for lunch, its just pretty much the students break and "freedom time". Students eat, play, study (review), and interact with each other without a teachers guidance; in if Students designed their own school they showed that students can independently study, and learn new things without a teachers guidance, calling it the "Independent Project".
In summary, it showed a group students working independently on their own interests through a project(s) which could have varied from learning the physics of a skateboard to learning how to play the piano. They gave honest critiques of each other's project each week for improvements and opinions. Although there were mentors in the room supervising them, they did not receive help from them; it was their project, their work.

   The message of the video was basically saying that we should try to sway of the "traditional" way of teaching and try to approach a new way of teaching because since society has changed the people have too. "It's crazy that in a system that is meant to teach and help the youth, there is no voice from the youth at all." was the first quote of the video and it proved just how much the teachers have made decisions for the students than the students themselves. Everybody is different therefor their way of learning, and thinking are different too, meaning not one way of teaching applies to everybody. There would be students that graduate successfully because they were able to accept the "traditional" teaching method and students that aren't as successful because they didn't understand or accept the teaching method. 

   ISDTOS is related to the "Digital Life" video by Amy Burvall because in Amy's video she discussed on how technology has changed the people and their lifestyles. "We shape our tools ... and then our tools shape us" quoted by Marshall McLuhan can be used as an example that us humans make so much technology and then our technology changes us. Both videos brings out on how society as well as how people has changed. Approaching new ideas and moving away/on from the past ideas may be more suitable to the present. 

  I personally think that the "Independent Project" isn't suitable for me, it may be more suitable for others (e.g Gr.11/12). I usually do work independently and can be self-motivated but I believe because I'm already so used the structuring of the "traditional" way of teaching, I now need the structuring. In my opinion if I were to be thrown into the "Independent Project" way of learning I would be totally thrown off my feet and have no idea what to do. I don't think I would as successful as I would be staying in the "traditional" way of teaching. I believe that this approach may be more suitable to Gr.11 and 12's in high school because during those two years most student that age have more of a sense of what their doing and where their heading as than Gr.8 and 9. The ISDTOS (if students designed their own school) video overall was very interesting and it made me think a lot more of how the current education system is. It was very enjoyable and a interesting new approach to the education system, but overall I don't believe this approach is suitable for me and the younger students in high school (e.g Gr.8/9).