Reflection #3

1. The big idea for a project is what is the number one take away you would like your students to get from a project. You can build other take aways from there, but this is the main idea that is even more important than all of the rest. This is the idea that if the student could only learn one thing from your lesson this is what you would want them to learn. My position is supported by pages 44 and 45 in the textbook.

2 & 3. I see 21st century literacies as a way to obtain 21st century skills. Literacies are like your students "knowledge tools" that they feel profficient with. You need to build these before you can actually develop any skills. In my opinion some of the most important 21st century literacies are technological things like how to use a computer, how to type, how to use word documents, how to use PowerPoint, and how to use the world wide web.

 Once you know your basic literacies you can use this knowledge to learn the skills you will need like how to problem solve, how to work as a team, how to present to others, etc... *The examples given are what I think are important 21st century skills and literacies and might not completely mesh with what the book says. To know what the book author's opinion is on this please visit pages 47, 48, 49, and 51.*

4. Essential learning functions go with my personal definitions of 21st century literacies and skills. These are the functioning that allow children to actually experience what it is like to actually do what real adults do in the real world. The book talks about these skills on pages 45, 54, and 55.

5. This chapter lets us know what we need to think about and incorporate in out own lesson plan unit on gardening (for other groups it's another subject). It also may help us break our thinking into four different subcategories that we can subdivide to make a more detailed thorough project.