1. Project Based Learning 1 and Project Based Learning are a continuous interview with Anthony Capp concerning how he has incorporated project learning into his 3rd grade class. He uses examples from his years teaching to show how he has learned to use projects to help students learn more. How he has shown that you must make the projects use the skills that you would have taught them, yet allowing them to learn those skills themselves. Also, he talks about how learning what helps the students most will make the experience more effective for them.
2. iCurio is a neat little project. I feel for younger groups it is ideal as far as web browsing, since it filters for educational sites. As Anthony stated there are other applications and that would be something worth investigating further to see how it could be incorporated into my classroom.
3. Discovery Education is a browser program that allows students to search and learn more about a given topic. Anthony uses the example of teaching about flowers. Since he may not be the foremost expert on flowers students can not only search for pictures, they can watch videos about that particular flower. On the other hand it is a to filter though timeline biographies. An example being you can filter for African American men from the 1950s through 60s. It would bring up only those who meet that criteria.
4. Additional Tips and Anthony- Strange Tips helps show how to use projects to plan for your entire year or semester. The fact that you have to think about what projects you are willing to do and even more importantly when to do them. Which projects would help students learn the skills best. Also, that teachers should make learning their hobby. Every teacher should keep learning their area and even learning new ways to teach it. It is important to remember that your job does not fit in the normal eight hour work schedule. As a teacher we should always be bettering ourselves and students.
5. Don't Teach Tech- Use It is an important idea. We are allowing students to learn by teaching themselves a specific topic. Slowly build on what they should know. Do not just throw your students into a huge project using different tools they have never used. Just walk them through the processes and programs they will need to ultimately use for a final project. Allowing your students to gain knowledge on the program little by little, then combine everything they learned and push them just a little further.
iCurio was a very neat little project to me too. I had never heard about it until watching this video. I agree that we shouldn't just throw our students into a huge projects using different tools. They need examples. They need to be walked through what the teacher expects from them. Good post!
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