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few tools students can use that encourage them to be reflective and evaluate
their own strengths are through blogs and online survey tools. Blogs are a great technological tool
for students because they can reflect over time about what they have learned. ProfilerPRO is an online survey tool
where members of a group can identify learning characteristics, and as they
learn more understanding they can reassess their profile. Lastly, a tool called SurveyMonkey, is
another online survey you can set up for your students, tracking their results,
helping them and comparing them.
KWL (know-wonder-learn) is a great activity for getting students minds
ready for a project. Encouraging
students to think, explore and use their imaginations and discuss the topic at
the beginning is another way to get their minds ready. An example from the text was to tell
your students about a surprise guest, each day giving them new ideas to build
their excitement.
It
is important to teach the fundamentals to your students first. This is important because if you just
push your students into a project dealing with skills they have not acquired
yet, it will be unsuccessful. As
teachers, we want our students to be successful. At the beginning of a project, give your students the topic
to think about, this is when they can start the KWL activity. This will inspire them to learn about
the topic and drive them to participate to their full potential in the project. By giving you students the rubric for
the project, they will have a better understanding for each part of the project
and your expectations to complete it accurately. Another teaching fundamental is to expose your students to
the technology, software, or programs, having them practice with it will
benefit them during the project. When
designing a project it is a good thing to incorporate all subjects in some way.
To guide inquire and deep learning
you can ask hypothetical questions, ask them to imagine things and ask them
how, what, why, when and where questions to your students. This chapter can be relatable to our
projects especially form the beginning of the chapter, about the different
technological tools we can use in a project, which we are doing in this class
and also applying to our group projects and lesson plans.
I liked the idea you talked about that you got from the book about a guest speaker to get the students interested. This could be a fun way to get kids interested, by possibly not telling them who the speaker is but giving them clues about that person, this way they are even more excited to figure out who it is and what the project is about. You did a really good job writing your reflection, and a lot of what we are doing in our own projects is related to every aspect of it.
ReplyDeleteI liked how you talked about a variety of survey tools and such that would be accessible to students that are not very difficult to use and can be accessed by multiple people. I like the idea of keeping students on their toes by telling them about the possibly of surprises the next day.
ReplyDeleteI think you did a good job of talking about the necessity of familiarizing the students with the technology they will be using for each project so students can participate to the best of their abilities with out technicalities stopping them.