Saturday, April 11, 2015

Chapter 11: Bringing it Home

Ricki Feuereisen


         After taking the project-based learning approach, you learn many different things as a teacher and a student. This approach teaches you that you can learn wherever you are and whenever you want to. You may not even realize that you are learning something new. With project-based learning, you learn about web-based productivity tools and multiple communication options, from handheld devices to web-based applications. Within these two, students can use storage devices that help students store and share their files. With the web-based software is where students are allowed to create, collaborate, store and access digital work products from any Internet ready computer. Next there is deep learning, you have primary sources and rich databases along with higher-order thinking. Students are interested and engaged in learning and completing the project. With project-based learning, students are using scenarios that are relatable in engaging.
         When thinking about how to bring the project together, you want to take time to reflect on what you have done. Think about what next steps you may want to take, or where you want to go next with your research. As a teacher, you can blog about your experience, if the project worked well or you want some ideas to improve. Teachers should also give students the chance to reflect. Reflect on their experience, what they learned. When students have the chance to reflect, ask them to reflect what could have gone better, what they liked about the project, or what next steps they might want to take with the project. Teachers should talk with their colleagues and discuss the project and see if they can give any ideas, also if the project went really well you want to share it with your colleagues so that they can incorporate it in their classroom possibly. At the end of the project, your students and teachers should feel like you guys took an adventure. Look back at the memories and artifacts, and ideas for shaping their next adventure.
            This chapter relates to my topic/project because at the end of the project, we want to have students to reflect on what they have done, but also give feedback on how they think the project went and what went well and what could be improved. You want students to walk away from the project having learned something.We want to think about what we have done throughout the project and the steps we have taken to get there.

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