Week 4

In week four of my masters’ class we focused on student centered types of learning.  I really enjoyed the video on project based learning.  One of the things I realized after I finished college was that I had no experience using the knowledge I had just spent years acquiring.  I hadn’t even done an internship in my field. When I saw the students working on the project, I thought they really had a leg up on the competition.  One of the things we as educators need to remember is that we need to prepare our students to be successful  and thrive in the real world after they graduate.

We also learned about student assessments.  Project based learning assessments are very different from the standard paper tests we take now.  They can be in oral presentation of what you learned, or a finished project of what you created.  I think this is a great way to measure a students’ knowledge.  I think this is especially significant to students that really have testing difficulties.