Reading Reflection #3

Abby Harrop

EDT

Lab 4:00

Reading Reflection #3

1. For the “Big Idea” of a project lots of things should be taken into consideration. It recommends scanning the contents of teaching guides, reviewing the curriculum standards, and asking, “What do these add up to?”

2. The 21^st Century skills are analyze, evaluate, and create. These are taken from blooms taxonomy and are the three highest. They can really evolve and become something really beneficial to learning. With analyzing they will be able to examine, explain, investigate, characterize, classify, compare, deduce, differentiate, discriminate, illustrate, and prioritize. With evaluate they will be able to judge, select, decide, justify, verify, improve, defend, debate, convince, recommend, and assess. With create they will be able to adapt, anticipate, combine, compose, invent, design, imagine, propose, theorize, and formulate.

3. There has been research on what 21^st-century skills and literacies are and they all go beyond just being able to read and write as some people may at first perceive literacy. Literacy is said to be learning to be independent and productive citizens. And with project based learning students can be experiencing literacy with opportunities for them to become literate in the 21^st century. Some things subjects that deal with literacy are topics such as history, mathematics, science, etc.

4. There are 8 essential learning functions. These are 1) Ubiquity 2) Deep Learning 3) Making things visible and discussable 4) Expressing ourselves, sharing ideas, building community 5) Collaboration 6) Research 7) Project Management and 8) Reflection and Iteration. Ubiquity is learning all the time, not just in school and the classroom, but outside of school to. Deep learning is allowing students to look for themselves at websites and things in which they have to navigate, organize, analyze, etc. Making things visible and discussable is showing ideas or what they have done/thought such as a concept map, an animation, etc. Expressing ourselves, sharing ideas, building community is to share their thoughts, opinions, ideas, etc. so that other people can see what they have done, share ideas, and so students can get feedback and get to know people and their ideas too. Collaboration allows people to work with others, talk, share ideas, concepts, and build upon what is discussed and decided upon. Research allows students to learn and read to find what they need and are looking for. Project management is what allows students to plan and organize, to essential skills needed. They will manage time, work, sources, and feedback from others, among others. Finally, reflection and iteration is when students examine what they have done, forces them to look back, and to then reconsider any ideas or reshape them to create the best work they possibly can.

5. These concepts all relate to our topic of Staying Healthy because in order to achieve a successful end result we have to include a lot of the essential learning functions. We will be thinking about it outside of class as well as during our class, we will be doing our own research and deep learning, we will be making things viewable and discussable with our professor, with each other, our classmates, and anyone else who would like to access our blog. We are sharing ideas, building a community, we are collaborating as a group with our ideas, we have already and will continue to do a lot of research, we will be planning and organizing, and will also be reflection as we go and at the very end of our project.