David Warlick's Reading

David Warlick's Technology Transformed Learning Environments describes five aspects of a personalized learning environment. He discusses them saying that learning should be fueled by questions. While learning, students should be propelled to ask themselves questions as they encounter barriers while gathering information. They need to solve these questions while gathering the information. While learning, students should also be prompted to engage in conversation. As students formulate and ask questions, they are engaging in conversation. The learning situation should also be responsive to the learners' actions. A students' decisions, actions and conclusions are responded to. The learning experience that a student has should compell the student to make a personal investment in a project so that it contributes to the learners' identity. The learner should also be able to safely make mistakes while learning.
Ultimately David Warlick says it is not how much a student learns; but what he/she does with that knowledge that is really important. Students will need to be responsible to their peers , audiences and communities for what they have learned.

One use of technology in my setting that works well, is when students use search engines for gathering information. It fits with Warlick's ideas about learning because it makes students compare and contrast lots of information. The students need to be critical thinkers and decide what is the most important information to be used. In deciding what information is most important, students will be provoked to ask questions about what they encounter online and to then engage in conversation with their peers and teachers about it.