Week 5 Reflection :  PBL, Rubrics, WebQuest! What  Technology-related Solution In My Class ?

The more we move on , the more hectic the weeks become. Week 5 has been particular with activities and discoveries. The highlighted points are the following :

 1.  The PBL (Project-based Learning) illustrated by Susan Gaer’s article “Less Teaching More Learning”, something I have been using since 2012 but less elaborate and organized. The details are enriching.

       2.  Rubrics are also some sort of review. The Alternative Assessment puts the student at the center of learning activities with the teacher acting as a facilitator of the learning process. Unlike the Traditional Assessment, the Alternative Assessment is authentic and focuses on the interests and strengths of the student instead of on his/her weaknesses. Creating a rubric online is completely new to me.

             3. The WebQuest, a pedagogic web tool, “is an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web” according to its inventor Bernie Dodge of San Diego State University. The WebQuest is the perfect technology ally of the 21^st century teacher.  The WebQuest format enables the teacher to integrate and implement the PBL,the Alternative Assessment and the rubrics with great detail and puts the students on task in a free and responsible manner both inside and outside classroom walls. This “must” be the Technology-related change or solution to my class!! Awesome tool it is! Nevertheless, very careful attention will be to its implementation in my class.

For some time now, I have been often very positively surprised by the bunch of work I have got through, by the way I have been able to carry out certain technology tasks , by many the successes of the course-mates, by the richness of the sharing! 

Thank you all!

Foli