Rahul's question

2. Skipka talks about how, "the kind of work that activity-based multimodal courses take as usual is not defined by the production of a particular kind of text that I, as instructor, have determined students need to accomplish."

This sounds like a teacher that tells students to go make a project but doesn't lead them in a certain path, would you prefer projects that have a certain path where the teacher outlines out or a project where you're free to go where you want to with it and why would you choose that one?

Whenever teachers assign projects, I like to have a good combination of both specific instructions, but also freedom. I don't think that confining an assignment to extremely distinct and binding guidelines is a good way for students to learn because it restricts the topics that they are able to explore. I think that the best projects are when a teacher gives students a detailed outline of what they expect from the project but leave how they achieve those expectations up to the student. I think students should be able to choose what they want to do the project on because everyone has individual interests, concerns, and opinions that cannot be expressed when they are confined to only certain viewpoints or areas. I also think that the way the project is gone about should be totally up to the student. Some people are more creative, some are better with technology than others, and others like to combine many different fields. By giving the student a rubric of how they will grade the project and what they expect, but also allowing the student to have freedom, the project would be the best that it could be.