In chapter three the reading explained how using the verbs analyze, evaluate, and create all can offer a better result. These three skills will be able to make the students think more about their project when they are making a plan to complete it. It will allow projects to be more informational, passionate, and purposeful.We want more than just a plain informative project. From our students we want a project that has been analyzed and evaluated. As teachers we want to be able to teach our students to utilize the best learning dispositions. Some of the important traits that they spoke about will give our students the confidence for tackling their projects are attitude, habits and feelings. Which leads them to be able to work well and cooperatively together to make great projects. It is important to give students projects that they feel passionately about. This enables them to be more enthusiastic and have the ability to connect the social and emotional aspect of their experience.
Chapter four discussed ways to evaluate students projects to make sure that they can get the best results possible. They gave ideas to think about to make a quality project. We can ask our students two compare and contrast, predict, cause and effect, determine how parts relate to the whole, look at change over time, patterns and trends, and look at points of view. This allows the students to look at their project from different perspectives to see which parts could be changed or bettered. I also really liked the features that they shared to produce the best products. It talked about how a project should do more than answer a question it should reach out. It should offer other learning paths, construct meaning, capture real life experiences, involve others, rich data resources. This allows the students to be able to have a strong connection with the audience. Their research will be engaging and beneficial to themselves and also to whoever is learning about their topic. I liked that this chapter helped me understand how important it is to teach students to have well developed projects.
I agree that it is very important to give the students projects that they are passionate about because they will get more enthusiasm with the project, connect to it more and overall, get more out of this project than one that they had no emotional connection to. Great point!
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ReplyDeleteYou did a great job bringing up all of the ways to have students evaluate the work. One that I think is very important is the compare and contrast part and looking at things from a part-to-whole view. This chapter gave a lot of good tips on how to create very efficient projects so that the students gain all of the benefits.
Great summaries of both chapters! You hit all of the major topics and made it clear to the reader exactly what the author was trying to teach through this material. You make a great point that students should be passionate about their work. I think that inner self motivation is what will really help them accomplish more that you could ever imagine.
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ReplyDeleteI agree with the evaluation that should be done to assess students learning through project based learning. I think the whole process san be beneficial to the student body as a whole and the teacher. PBL is a learning experience in all aspects and for all people involved.