PBL's

How can projects help my students meet standards and develop 21st century skills?

PBLs can help my students develop 21st century skills by taking my students to a higher thinking order. Teamwork is essential to the workplace and working on projects is essential to their success in life. Technology enhances these skills. Click here for a list of 21st century skills standards

http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/NETS/ForStudents/2007Standards/NETS_for_Students_2007_Standards.pdf

How can I use projects to enhance student learning?
Students create thier own problems, they own them and search for anwers to their own projects/problems. They think about thinking, they bounce ideas off of others and work together to achieve a common goal.

This module has made me think about my role as an instructional designer in the following ways...
Thinking as my role as a facilitator. I do not do the work my students do. I create the environment for the work to be done, but my students create the problems and research the solutions. This is the essence of PBL.

Characters

Please respond to this questions:

Write a characterization of yourself reading a book.

Describe your appearance,
Describe how you act most of the time (example: shy, loud, pushy)
Reveal how you think (example: take my time, rush to get to the end)
Describe how you speak (example: blurt out, high pitched, fast, slow)
Describe how other people react to you

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