Blog Post #11

PBL

Back To The Future
I really enjoyed watching this video. It was really neat to watch the experiment that Brian Cosby did with his class. He not only got his classes attention but he used technology to get other people in different states involved. This video just goes to show people how technology can connect people all around the world.

Blended Learning Cycle
In the video Blended Learning Cycle, Paul Anderson shares some great methods with PBL. Anderson says that if his students are not understanding by the end then they will start back over until they do. I think for teachers this is a great method it shows students that teachers will not give up until the student understands and can master the concepts.

Teaching Digital Citizenship In Elementary School
This video was a very good video that shows people how technology is good to use in classrooms and how elementary schools are using it.  This video shows how elementary classrooms are using it to make comic books.

Project Based Learning

In the video Roosevelt Elementary the students were willing and excited to start the projects and learn. PBL is hands on and the students are engaged in what they are doing, and the parents, and staff seemed to like that their children were teaching themselves to be self-motivators. PBL learning teaches students problem solving skills, collaboration, presentation skills, and speaking skills. All of these aspects of PBL are important for students in their school careers and their future jobs. I will be using project based learning in my classroom when I am a teacher. I think it helps students be better prepared in their future careers.

Roosevelt Elementary's PBL program
This video shows how Roosevelt Elementary uses project based learning in their school. Project Based Learning is where students use projects to gain more knowledge. Projects help students retain information better then just telling them the information. It requires them to use the information they have received.