Educational Leadership:Giving Students Meaningful Work:Seven Essentials for Project-Bas... - 1 views
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A classroom filled with student posters may suggest that students have engaged in meaningful learning. But it is the process of students' learning and the depth of their cognitive engagement— rather than the resulting product—that distinguishes projects from busywork.
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Jason Friedman on 21 Aug 14I think this is a key distinction between a project and a PBL. Making a poster is not enough. PBL is about the process by which students arrive at that poster. -
Matt Duncan on 30 Oct 14REALLY glad the article got off its "posters = bad" horse and acknowledged just what Jason articulates here -- the process is the important thing. If it's a poster or not isn't really the issue... it's what goes into the creation of the poster, wiki, video, etc. that is most important. The way the article was structured rhetorically almost turned me off entirely, as it targeted a MEDIUM, not a METHODOLOGY.
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A project is meaningful if it fulfills two criteria. First, students must perceive the work as personally meaningful, as a task that matters and that they want to do well. Second, a meaningful project fulfills an educational purpose. Well-designed and well-implemented project-based learning is meaningful in both ways.
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I think it is important that sutdents have a buy in. The more invested they are - the more interested they can get in the project - the better the product they will develop.
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This is the PBL article Chris English shared 8/21/14.
