I watched Lisa Parisi’s “Oh the Posibilities” form the Kicking It Up A Notch session. She talked about how to use project base learning in the class room with out mess and chaos. For the projects to run smoothly she recommends a lot of planning, keeping the project simple, using a preplanned rubric, and keeping the project short. The children would use a different tool for each project . (ie voice threads, pod casts, slide shows). After they’ve mastered or are familiar with the different tools you can implement a project where they can choose the tool(s) they would like to use.
A new idea, for me, was to stop being the expert. Early on in the project you will notice which children are catching on to the tool the class is using. These children will then be the expert, or teacher, for this particular tool.
I found Ms. Parisi’s lesson to be relevant and worth while. After viewing her ideas I would feel very comfortable and interested in applying them in our class room.
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