Blog Post #9

Seven Essentials for Project-Based Learning

I found this article very accurate and helpful when it  comes to project-based learning. Students will be more interested and engaged in the classroom if you follow this method.The seven parts to this article are as follows: a need to know, driving question, student voice and choice, 21st century skills, inquiry and innovation, feedback and revision, and a publically presented project. I strongly believe if all educators followed this advice in their own classrooms, students would be getting a lot more out of school than by going the tradtional route. As the author said, students need to be motivated by learning something meaningful to their lives. 

Project-Based Learning for Teachers

This video reiterated what I saw in the first resource I viewed. Students need to be learning something that will help them prepare for life after school. Memorizing something just to pass a test is not going to benefit our students in the long run. Through PBL our students will be learning critical things that they can relate to real world issues.

Project-Based Learning and Physical Education

In this article, Andrew Miller writes about how he believes using PBL in physical education will help show the value of PE while students are also learning about PE. He also writes about how educators "steal" ideas from each other and recycle them. I think if we see something that's working for our students we should take advantage of it. He then uses the seven things that are essential to PBL that I wrote about earlier.

Project Based Learning in PE

This school allowed their high school students to use PBL to create different PE fitness programs for their middle school students. The students worked together to complete these and learned why living a healthy life is important. They followed the National Standards(NASPE) when creating these programs. This PBL could be used for all high schoolers to promote physical education.

Ten Sites Supporting Digital Classroom Collaboration in Project Based Learning

This article discussed how PBL is becoming increasingly popular and then gave the readers ten sites they could utilize as tools in the field of PBL. I knew what a couple of the sites were previously but I had to research the other ones. One that we have used in class that I have found very helpful was Wall Wisher. This allows you to post sticky note type messages. These resources could be used in numerous ways.