- Discussion on the items that should be considered before starting a project with students.
- Discussion on teachers’ and students’ management needs.
- Discuss some of the technology applications that should be considered for use in a project.
- Discussion on how concepts in this chapter relate to your topic/project.
1. Things that need to be considered before starting a project with students are rather straight forward. There needs to be proper planning. With planning comes gathering resources. What materials, who and what is needed has to be planned and figured out. Take inventory and clearly gather what you need. Make sure there is a goal of the project. Goals should have deadlines and milestones and achieved accordingly. The team should be organized in team planning. There should be a plan for assessment set already. How will you test what you expected them to learn? It should have more than one good assessment.
2. Both teachers and students have needs to create and execute a successful project. Teachers need tools for communicating, tools for milestones, making events visible and notifying students. Teachers also need methods for getting resources to students, systems for managing work products, structures that support productive learning environments and assessment tools.
Students need systems and tools for time management, tools for material management, collaboration tools, methods for seeking assistance, feedback tools, and ways to work iteratively and see it as a whole.
3. Some technology that could be considered are a wiki, a blog, Drupal, or Textpatter. Students can create other personalized web pages also. With all of these students and teachers can have great communication. It is easier to update each other. These are great management frameworks and structures to help the flow of information to be shared.
4. This chapter relates because it it helps us know how to start our project. It provides great advice on what to do before we even get started to have a successful project. Also it gives great applications we can use.
I think your reflection was really good. I would like to note that you should spread out your assessments so that students are not tempted to cram and so students learn their materials better.I also wonder how you plan to organize the students so that efficient group work motive are met (and to avoid one student doing all the work or all but one student doing the work).
ReplyDeleteI couldn't agree more, proper planning is key in any project. Having more than one good assessment is also a very good point. Great reflection!
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