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Project based learning

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Hello everyone, project based learning is the topic we have to reflect upon this week.Actually this is one of the methods which encourage students to engage and to investigate in order that they gain skills and knowledge . PBL allows teachers to expose students to a wide variety of 21st Century skills,and allows students to interact with curriculum in a way that is authentic and fun. Project-based learning is a dynamic classroom approach as students are completely active while making relations of the lesson topics to real world issues by getting a deeper understanding of it.However the role of the teacher is undenial during the process as it requires a lot of prep work on the part of the teacher .There are four steps to helps us as teachers create a Project Based-Learning classroom. 1. Begin at the end,when planing a project ,we shall begin with the end in mind.Coming up with new ways to present information and showcase student learning can be a challenge but there exist lots o...

Flipped Classroom

Hi everyone, last week we were introduced with an unknown   entry for most of us but we had the opportunity to learn it through real practice. Yes , I’m referring to flipped classroom which I found very interesting and useful for me as student but also as a teacher in the future. First of all , let’s explain   what flipped classroom is about :  an instructional strategy and a type of blended learning that reverses the traditional learning environment by delivering instructional, often online , outside the classroom.                                     This model is gaining steam and for good reason. Starting from the fact that students can have their self-pace learning. This means that they can work whenever they want as long as it’s before deadline. Next thing , lectures and information can...

Constructivism

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Constructivism is a theory which states that learning is an active process to construct knowledge .According to it people create their own subjective represantions of objective reality . Constructivism transforms the student from a passive recipient of information to an active participant in the learning process.By using this theory us as current students are able to encounter something new and reconcile it with our previous experiences in order to reflect ,explore and asess what we know . Constructivism does not only serve for us as students but for us as future teachers as well .In the most general sense it might be used as a means to encourage students to use active teaching as experiment ,real world problem solving to create more knowledge and then to reflect on and talk about how their understanding is changing .The teacher guides the activity to adress them and then build on them. By questioning their strategies ,the students in a contractivist classroom become "exp...

Reflections on the advantages of multimedia technology in teaching

Multimedia is considered as one of the best educational techniques because it adresess more than one sense simultaneously ,which are the senses of sight and hearing.Multimendia programs provide different stimuli in their prestantations which include a number of elements some of which include texts,pictures ,sound and music,graphics etc.These elements were used in comprehensive presantations in order to provide affective education,which will support the participation of the different senses of the learners .Some of the advantages of these programs are : It adds dynamics during the reading process differently from the written texts printed in the books . The different drawing and pictures that are presented support the clarification of ideas and information . The use of different presantations like video clips along with graphics or other kinds of presantations help to get the information closer to reality . Adding music makes the idea clearer and it attracts the attention of the lea...