Journal #6

The “dominant paradigm” that is showing wear is the old fashion classroom teaching styles. That includes old outdated books and lectures/work created by the teacher. Technology is on the rise and we have so much information at our finger tips if we just could gain the resources to use it. “Project-based learning involves completing complex tasks that typically result in a realistic product, event, or presentation to an audience.”(edutopia pg.3) Project-based learning involves completing complex tasks that typically result in a realistic product, event, or presentation to an audience. According to the article, “it is central to the curriculum, organized around driving questions that lead students to encounter central concepts or principles, focused on a constructive investigation that involves inquiry an knowledge building, student-driven, and authentic, focusing on problems that occur in the real world and that people care about,” In problem-based learning students take a different approach to problems. They work in small groups and take an active role in developing and executing a plan. People who take part in this strategy show strengths in developing a correct hypothesis. There have been few controlled group designs when studying learning by design. Learning by design pertains to students who create or design an artifact that has to do with the project that they are doing. It could be something like drawing a picture or creating a story. Students who strive in this strategy often show stronger scores in the basic classroom. It is important for the teacher to understand these three styles. Each student learns different and if the teacher knows how the student learn the best, they can be able to reach each student.