Students benefit greatly from Project-Based Learning. As a result of PBL, students will walk away with knowledge that they will be able to recall for a lifetime, as opposed to studying for a test, taking it, and forgetting all of the information. Students can also use what they have learned to help them in future projects. Through PBL students learn time management, project management, how to work with a team, and many other useful aspects that can help them in the real world.
In order to "bring your project home" it is important to capitalize on your investment, critique your work, share your insights, become a resource for your colleagues, enter a contest, and enjoy the journey. It is important to look back at your project and realize what planning helped to make the project successful. There may have been certain technological tools that either worked well or not so much, and that can help in planning for future projects. It is important to share your project with other teachers as they will learn from you.
These concepts apply to our project of creating the living museum because it is our hopes that they will walk away from the project with skills they can use later on in the real world, and also ideas on what they can do when they have other projects to complete. It is also important that we "bring our project home" rather than just completing it and being done abruptly.
I liked you paragraph on "bringing the project home". Well written. You had good ideas and concepts on how the discussions in this chapter related to what you are doing in class. Well done.
ReplyDeleteI like what you said about as a result of PBL, students will walk away with knowledge they they will be able to recall for a lifetime, as opposed to studying for a test, taking it, and forgetting all the information. I find that PBL is more meaningful then traditional classroom work. PBL is more memorable then traditional testing.
ReplyDeleteI agree that students retain more information and knowledge through projects rather then being only assessed on materials. I also think that students are better prepared for real life situations later on when working through projects. Hands on work builds confidence as well :] The PBL approach is most definitely more beneficial
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