Learn to Live, Live to Learn
Hello To All,
"Live as if
you were to die tomorrow.
Learn as if you were to live forever."
-Mahatma
Gandhi
As this week
progressed with question mark on WebQuest, Project Based Learning and Rubrics
with other assessment tools, I was wondering with the issue related to the
classroom which I has to project but I could not make clear understanding to
it. I have given lot of time to the readings but misunderstood the thing many a
time. At last I could find a way to deal with the problem and its solution at
large. Students have so many issues that teacher has to deal with but when it
came through the solution with technology I was bit tensed as I was thinking of
technology first rather than student’s problem. At last I could figure out what
can be the solution of the problems that my students are facing in their day to
day life while dealing with them in the classroom. Thanks to all who have added
a new of mark understanding directly or indirectly by contributing here for
technology based change as it helped me to understand the issue of my classroom
with solution could be bringing with Technology.
I have learned
three things most importantly during this week:
1. Project Based Learning
Project-based
learning is a comprehensive instructional approach to engage students in
sustained, cooperative investigation. It focuses on the central concepts and
principles of a discipline, involves students in problem solving investigations
and other meaningful tasks, allows students to work autonomously to construct
their own knowledge, and culminates in realistic products.
In disciplines
other than second and foreign language, the Buck Institute for Education (BIE),
an American research and development organization, defined PBL as “a systematic
teaching method that engages students in learning knowledge and skills through
an extended inquiry process structured around complex, authentic questions and
carefully designed products and tasks”.
When we talk about
teaching in modern age, the shift in the traditional method which focus on
chalk and talk method where teacher is in center towards technology supported
project based learning which makes students centered learning. Students'
centered learning provides opportunities for the students to initiate and
participate in various kinds of activity during the Project Based Learning. The
students who work in group and pair get opportunity to learn something new from
the peers and they themselves become owner of independent learning. Technology
makes Project Based Learning more effective in terms of its implementation
where students can be given activity based on presentation, gathering
information, internet based assignments, online discussions etc.
2. Rubrics
Rubrics and other
assessment tools also guide students for creating learning environment for
themselves in group or independent. Rubrics as an assessment tool create
quality outcome in students' work. Rubrics is performance grading tool that can
be used for growth in the students' performance. Tools like rubrics would give
clear understanding of what they are suppose to do to get effective score in
particular activity.
3. WebQuest
A WebQuest is an
inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that
learners work with comes from the web. These can be created using various
programs, including a simple word processing document that includes links to
websites.
I have read so
many things about PBL and Rubrics but still to read some more things about
WebQuest as many of my mates have created project using WebQuest as I could not
but I wish to do it soon as possible.
Thanking You all
Kamlesh Joshi