Reading Reflection #3

1. “The Big Idea” for any project is important. You always want to make sure the “big idea” will be something that students, or anyone who is learning about it will take from it. This can be a certain subject or topic, a lesson learned, a question, any sort of words with a main idea. 

2. The 21st Century skills are very relevant to PBL. Apply, analyze, evaluate, create, and remember are some of the skills. These are all important skills to have and are key skills for students to develop. These skills develop and and progress over time and some skills are more useful in different subjects such as computers, and some in reading. 

3. The 21st Century literacy skills help with expanding knowledge of important themes, topics, and questions. With PBL, students experience literacy skills in a whole different way. Literacy is used in school with every subject and it is very important to develop these skills in the 21st Century. 

4. There are eight essential learning functions from the book. They include:

-Ubiquity, which is learning in the classroom, but learning in your environment too.

-Deep learning is learning more in depth, investigating knowledge to learn.

-Making things visible and discussable is all about students making representations to show their thinking.

-Expressing ourselves, sharing ideas, building community is all about learning through socially sharing ideas, thoughts, etc.

-Collaboration is teaching and learning with others to expand knowledge.

-Research helps students find the information they need to help them succeed.

-Project management is very key to students success. Planning and organization is the best way to keep work in order.

-Reflection and iteration is reflecting on work completed and analyzing how it went. 

5. Chapter three helped me think about all the skills, functions, and topics to consider when creating our lesson on gardening. These will all be things to look at when developing our project. I learned a few functions to think about from this chapter that I wouldn't of thought of before. Great tips and realizations to incorporate into our own lesson.