Ch 6 Relfection

Quality communication, management of time budget and trouble shooting are all necessary skills to manage a project. These skills can later be applied to real world jobs. These skills are important to teach our students.

·      Online tools or social media devices such as twitter can be resourceful to communicate to others. Make use of community resources such as recycling centers. This is a good idea since it is cost efficient and teaches our students a good lesson of recycling. Look local for help when students are need of supplies, such as libraries.

The teacher will need to use tools to communicate with students and be able to show that students are hitting benchmarks to show their success. I will need to adapt a system to manage products. It is also important to assess which students are doing the most work and which aren’t doing as much and enable them to all be doing the same work load. Teachers should also look for ways to give feedback to students as the project goes on not just at the final project.

Students need to develop a system that they can use tools to help them manage their time and work flow. They need to be able to collaborate with peers to develop good communication. Students will be able to seek assistance from different resources at times of struggles.

·      Some of the technology applications that should be considered is using wikis, a blog or other web pages using forums or surveys. All these resources allows students to explore and use other variations of displaying their learning. For an example, skype is a resource to communicate with others to gain knowledge that other could help them with. Shared media allows students to learn more from others that cannot be near. 

·      My students will need a variety of plants. They will use youtube to watch informative videos of plants. The students will then also use programs like excel to record numerical data and use engines to create those numbers into visual representations.