Tuesday, August 3, 2010

PROJECT BASED LEARNING

PROJECT BASED LEARNING....

What is PBL all about?? it is use in classroom projects. It helps the students to learn deeper, where the students use technology an inquiry to engage questions relevant in their lives.
It allow students to do their own investigation and develop their valuable skills.They expand their mind and they are able to do things in their own.The students engage in design, problem solving, investigating activities and decission making.
With PBL, students can learn from these experiences which they can take them and apply it real world problems.

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Blogging My Journey- Module 1

Module 1 Key Points
  • Research on learning and teaching indicates the importance of in-depth coverage of important subject matter, big ideas to organize understanding, ongoing assessment and purposeful authentic tasks
  • Projects concentrate on scenarios that provide rich learning opportunities. They involve students in problem solving investigations and other meaningful tasks. Projects establish connections to life outside the classroom and address real world concerns
  • The steps for designing projects include (1) Determining specific learning goals (2) Developing Curriculun Framing Questions; (3) Making an assessment Plan and (4) Desigining activities.