- Discussion on preparing students for the project.
- Discussion on preparing students for technology to be used in the project.
- Discussion on the benefits of screencasting.
- Discussion on the steps for screencasting.
- Discussion on promoting inquiry and deep learning.
- Discussion on how concepts in this chapter relate to your topic/project.
To prepare students for a project you should have them do a self evaluation and have them set personal goals. You must get the students mind ready by giving them prior knowledge you can use techniques such as K-W-L. Your job as a teacher is to teach the fundamentals and then allow for inquiry to occur among students. To preparer students for technology that is going to be used in a project you can set up a technology playground, tap student expertise, introduce project-management tools and demonstrate. The benefits of screencasting are to use them for tutorials, narrated slideshows, flipping a lesson, and feedback on work projects. The steps for screencasting are to plan, practice, record, edit, and publish. By promoting inquiry and deep learning there is an understanding that a relationship between need and opportunity and scarcity and abundance, money bartering and other means of exchange have occurred throughout history, economics, health and well being are related, money means different things to different people, humans are interdependent. The concepts in this chapter give me a clear cut idea on how to start a project in PBL in a way that will guide my students in the right thought process.
Cassie,
ReplyDeleteI like the idea of using a K-W-L chart in the beginning because I have seen first hand how beneficial those can be, not only to the students, but the teachers as well. It kind of gives them a starting point. I also like the idea of setting up a technology playground because I feel students sometimes learn best by experiencing, or figuring it out themselves.
I like that you mentioned self evaluation to prepare the student before the project. I think this is good so that the students really look into what prior knowledge they have coming into the project. I agree also that this chapter really helped with guiding us through the process of starting off the project with students.
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