Student Interest Survery

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Double Entry Journal #15

1. Give an example of an authentic form of assessment the students engaged in a PBL performed well on?

• Students engaged in a PBL performed well on the IOWA test of basic skills as well as national exams.

2. How does project based learning promote intrinsic motivation?

• Project based learning uses the element of choice to allow the students to strike their own interest in the topic. By allowing the students to make their own decisions throughout the project it allows them to discover things they want to know and are interested in.

3. What do students who experience a PBL do better than students who receive traditional direct instruction?

• Students develop twenty-first century skills such as teamwork skills, use of different technologies, and solving real world problems. The skills they experience extremely critical to success to any job the students will have in the future.

4. How does PBL align with John Dewey's philosophy of education?

• A PBL fits into John Dewey's philosophy of education because he believed you learned by doing. IN PBL students take a real world problem and then propose ways how to solve it. A PBL is a great way to improve a students problem solving skills and have them "learn by doing".

5. Why do our assessment practices need to change if we are going to prepare students for the 21st century?

• Our assessment practices test a students current knowledge on a specific topic. Rather than preparing the student for how they will be assessed in a work environment. A PBL helps the student see the connection from what they are learning to real world situation. This prepares them for possible problems they could encounter during their future jobs.

Double Entry Journal #14

What are some challenges to inquiry approaches to learning?
Some challenges a teacher may face when it comes to implementing inquiry-based learning are not having the skills and knowledge about this approach. Teacher will fail to provide proper scaffolding and redirection as the students are working on their projects. Another challenge for teachers would be all the planning involved with inquiry- based projects and trying to find ways to improve collaboration between the students.

What are some benefits to group work? 

• group work improve social and behavioral skills
• improves time on task
• improves relationships between classmates

Group work Strategy
Presenting as a Group
Here is a link to a website that I found that gave many advantages to group work.

Double Entry Journal #13

1. What "dominant paradigm" is showing signs of wear?
The belief that the teacher and the texbook are the main source of knowledge and the student learns through lectures and readings.

2. According to the research, how does Project-Based Learning support student learning better than traditional approaches? Describe three benefits and cite the studies.

• students benefit from gains in factual learning that are equivalent or superior to those of studnets hwo engage in traditiona forms of instruction (Thomas, 2000).
• students engaged in project-based learning demonstrated a significant increase in scored on a critical-thinking test, as well as increased confidence in their learning (Sheperd 1998).
• students had developed a useful kind of mathematical knowledge that engaged them in "exploration and thought" (Boaler, 1997, p. 63)

3.  According to the research, how does Problem-Based Learning support student learning better than traditional approaches? Describe three benefits and cite the studies.

• students identify what they need to learn in order to solve a problem, and generate strategies for solution (Barrows, 1996;Hmelo-Silver, 2004).
•  medical students who are enrolled in problem-based learning score highter on clinical probem-solving measures and on actual ratings of clinical performance (Vernon & Blake, 1993; Albanese & Mitchel, 1993)
• students develop knowledge to guide decisionmaking(Lundeber, Levin & Harrington, 1999; Savery & Duffy, 1996; Williams, 1993)

4.  According to the research, how does Learning by Design support student learning better than traditional approaches? Describe three benefits and cite the studies.

• ideal for developing technical and subject matter knowledge (Newstetter, 2000).
• help students develop understanding of complex systems (Perkins, 1986).
• better learning outcomes than the traditional approach to instruction. (Kolodner, 2000).

5. What are the differences between the three approaches?

Project-Based learning the students learn through completing complex tasks that usually result in a realistic product.

Problem-Based Learning the students are given a problem and have to use reasoning and thier resources to solve the problem.

Learning by Design the students learn through designing and creating an application of their knowledge.

 

6. In your opinion, what is the most important benefit to learning that is common across the three types of inquiry-based learning approaches?

In my opinion the most important benefit to learning that is common across these three approaches is the fact that the student are limited to one right way to do things and they learn by doing not by reciting what the teacher did previously in the lesson.

Double Entry Journal #12

3 things I learned:

• The basic purpose of school is achieved through communication.
• Teachers much be aware of language patterns in their classroom. This allows the teacher to improve their relationship with their students.
• that it is important for a student to know their knowledge is as valuable as the knowledge the teacher possesses.

2 things I found interesting:

• Language is used to initiate, monitor, adjust and evaluate cognitive processes
• When the article talked about language reflects personal identity.

Question:

• What are some good strageties to learn the language patterns of your classroom other than kidwatching?

How asking essential questions can improve learning in schools.
By teachers asking essential questions it promts the student to make connections with that topic to a real-world problem. Also it allows the teachers to ensure the students are staying engaged and on the course intended by the teacher.

Double Entry Journal #11

RLA.O.K.3.2.   recognize a variety of visual media and its intended purpose.
RLA.O.4.1.13   judge the reliability or logic of informational texts.
SC.O.4.1.7       use scientific instruments, technology and everyday materials to investigate the natural world.

Concrete examples of a exemplary PBL:
The problem or question has meaning to the students.
She did a great job of finding a problem/questions that would interest the students. She noticed that her students were very interested in top 10 books that were in her classroom. She designed this PBL the strike the students and have them learn the difference between opinion and fact.

Students develop new habits of mind.
As the students were creating the top 10 wiki they were learning the perspectives of other people. Such that maybe one classmate thinks great white sharks are the most dangerous with another thinks an octopus is the most dangerous.

Students formally use self management skills to improve their teams performance.
Throughout this project students were adding their own part to the wiki. As the students where doing this project they has to finish certain task so their classmates could add to that part of the wiki. The students worked together to create a criteria to classify a dangerous animal.