Thursday, October 25, 2012
Reflection 6
Technology tools can encourage students to be reflective and evaluate their own strengths in many ways. They will be able to try new tools and help others use the ones that they already know. Students will be able to organize their own work over time and reshape work into more final products. Before and after the project students can complete a self-evaluation that will have them focus on the learning dispositions that they should learn during the project. At the end of the project, the students can then reflect on their work and feel a sense of accomplishment. For example, Blogs offer students space where they can reflect over time about what they are learning.
You can get students minds ready for a project by tapping into their prior knowledge. Start with getting the students’ attention and giving the idea time to settle in their imaginations. This way you are inviting them to think about the possibilities before they start to “dig into” the actual project. Encourage students to explore and think about the topic for several days.
Before starting a project, you first have to think about teaching a prerequisite or some skill that the students will be able to work independently. By teaching the fundamentals first, you can be sure that your students are on the right track to start their project.
Technology is not the main part of the project but it helps your students get the project completed. Learning to use technology or an application for a project can be a good problem solving experience. By setting up a technology playground students are able to explore and encourage teaching each other.
Ways to promote inquiry and deep learning is to guide the students as they choose questions, plan investigations, and begin to put their plan together.
A main topic in this chapter that relates to my topic is the use of technology. This chapter talks about technology tools that can encourage students to be reflective. For our project and in the class we have all created a blog. This blog connects us to not only our partners for the project but also every one else in the class. This chapter also talks about how to prepare ourselves and students using technology just as we are doing in our projects.
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I enjoyed on how in-depth your post was about the technology and technology tools. You described the chapter pretty well and how this chapter can relate to your project in our class. Your examples were well done. Good Job!
ReplyDeleteI agree with you about how we need to invite the students to think about the possibilities before letting them "dig in." It reminds me of something I learned about in my writing class. The teacher always said to encourage the writer to think about the writing and what they want it to become before actually starting to write. We can apply this to projects that we plan for the students as well. If we allow them to think about the projects and decide for themselves where they want to take things (with our guidance as needed), then their learning can be so much deeper!
ReplyDeleteGreat reflection! =]