Beth Loffreda's 'Project Classroom Makeover'

People who actively involve themselves and support an event have a greater impact than those who silently watch in the back and comment without acting on their opinions. There are always distinctions between the people who are activist and are strongly committed to the event, and the people who are not directly associated with the events but claim and comment about the event without a definite approach; this defines the position of insiders and outsiders. In Beth Loffreda's "Losing Matt Shepard: Life and Politics in the Aftermath of Anti-Gay Murder", she complains on how outsiders are generalizing the murder of Matt Shepard and ignores the real issues behind it; and in Cathy Davidson's "Project Classroom Makeover", Davidson denounces others falsely apprehend ideas on how technology and crowdsourcing is influenced by the new type of education. Personal involvement uncovers the truth and solution to a situation, but too involved in the situation while obtaining excessive information can also lose their views of the bigger picture. …show more content…
In “Project Classroom Makeover”, Davidson introduces her iPod experiment and the idea of crowdsourcing with specific examples of the music major student and the med-students, they are academically benefitted with iPod in this new form of education. While the media attacks her suggestion, Davidson seems to obtain a more thorough picture of her perceptions compared to the people who are standing in a different shoe, judge and falsify the understanding of what she really defines as good education. The media is having the preconception of what Davidson refers at only the rich and spoiled students who study in Duke University. Closely participate in the experiment, Davidson responds to the media that she values a more complex concept of crowdsourcing and believes