Sunday, May 5, 2013

Making Traditional Projects VS. Project Based Learning


In PBL, teachers serve as co-designers, guides and facilitators providing students with different possibilities to gather answers. PBL creates a challenge to align the need-to-knows with standards focusing both on content and skills used, making the activity totally engaging. Skills such as effective presentation as students are to present to a real audience, working in groups and problem solving are essential. While in traditional projects, hard work has already been done even before the project is accomplished. Teachers hold students accountable for the grades that they will get while in PBL, teachers serve as coaches guiding students to make connections. Traditional projects require all students to go through the same steps producing the same final products and teachers are deemed to have the right answers while PBL provide differentiated scaffoldings and engagements allowing variety in final products. Students are also empowered to get the right answers from the web. 

Assignment PA2b



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