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How can projects help students meet standards and develop 21st century skills?
How can projects be used to enhance student learning?
What websites would you recommend to a teacher that wants to make his/her classroom more “interactive?”
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Projects can be used to enhance student learning in the following ways:
ReplyDelete* Provides differentiated instruction
* Increases student motivation and engagement
* Encourages collaboration skills
* Makes real-life connections
* Engages students in higher-order thinking skills
* Addresses a variety of learning styles
* Models future work envoronments
* Helps develop 21st century skills/technology
Melanie Hughes, Shannon Goodwin, Richard Colley
Administrative Group
ReplyDeleteThe advantages of project based learning can minimally include collaboration between students, hands on activities, the development of higher order thinking, and the building of socialization skills. Project based learning also lends itself to meeting a variety of learning styles, building inquiry skills, application of concepts and classroom engagement.
We would recommend several websites to a teacher to make his or her classroom more interactive. These websites include, but are not limited to:
ReplyDelete• www.internet4classrooms.com
• www.quizstar.com
• www.spellingcity.com
• www.funbrain.com
• www.mathplayground.com
• http://quizhub.com/quiz/quizhub.cfm
• http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/
• http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/games/
• http://www.nflrush.com/
• http://espnkids.com/
• http://www.factmonster.com/games.html
• www.kidscollege.com
• www.cnn.com
• www.scholastic.com
• www.earth.google.com
• www.aptplus.com
• www.learning.blogs.nytimes.com
• www.smartboard.com
• www.alex.state.al.us
• www.classjump.com
• www.gaggle.net
Amber Poke
Tracy Borden
Tonya Petty
Canitha Thomas
We found a variety of websites that a teacher could use to make their classroom more "interactive." These included:
ReplyDeletewww.google.com (search interactive websites)
http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/interactive.htm
classtools.net
music8kids.com
pppst.com
http://www.bspcn.com/2008/06/23/wow-10-awesome-interactive-websites/
www.funbrain.com
www.edhelper.com
Dennis Engle
Regina Yates
Valerie Winton
How can projects be used to enhance student learning?
ReplyDelete- Projects allow hands-on engagement.
- Students will learn from each other from working in small groups.
- Students will be able to make applications of new concepts.
- Projects help make learning motivating and fun.
Adriane Lewis & Emily Millwood
Cynthia Ward
ReplyDeleteHow can projects help students meet standards and develop 21st century skills?
Projects provide a variety of strategies and methods for helping students meet the set standards.
Projects:
• Are more student-centered and engaging for the students. Once the standards have been presented and taught students can engage in a project that will reinforce and guide the students to learning through a variety of activities.
• Provide activities that address all learning styles and increase students opportunities to become “owners and guides” for their own learning. They become partners with the teacher in discovering and learning more about the standard at hand.
• Provide opportunities for students to collaborate with others to plan, construct, and present their findings in unique and creative ways.
• Provide teachers with greater opportunities for differentiating instruction. Conferences are critical to this process.
• Provide an opportunity for greater student learning. Projects cause students to be more focused and on task. The presentations enable them to present information the way “their world” operates, learning is sure to occur.
• Provide numerous opportunities for students to explore certain questions, investigate and discover. Their questioning techniques increase and afford them to learn more than what is expected.
• Offer numerous opportunities for 21st century skills to be sharpened. Students have to become more self-directed, creative, able to communicate and collaborate, just to name a few 21st century skills.
These are just a few benefits of using projects to help students increase learning.
Cynthia Ward ED 529
Project based learning allows students to tap into their creative sides. They also have more control over the assignmnent and tend to take more ownership of their work. The more students feel they have a valid opinion or something the teacher is really interested in the more they are willing to put themselves out there. Students will also benefit by using technology in a world that is daily turning into a more technology driven society.
ReplyDeleteShawnta Fleming
Project based learning can be used to support and improve social interactive skills, and more importantly support higher order thinking and organization. All the while incorporating technology to enhance the quality of learning and to simply make the project at hand more fun and exciting!
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