survey

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/5NCW8JF

AN OPEN MIND

An open mind

I think it is a very interesting project which allows students that are not at the university notice how classes there works and also it creates certain learning independency because students are not force to be there, but they are involved.

I really agree with the idea that the best educational experience must have an interactive engagement as Dr. Smith stated in the article. However, the engagement is provided not only by the teacher, it has to do with the whole community which creates the support enough to handle this project. Kevin Carey, the policy director of Education Sector, a research institution in Washington stated that even this project has good results he believes that grades are needed as part of the results. I disagree with that because I think that grades could distort the main goal of this project.

Those are the links to know about some Universities classes

http://www3.open.ac.uk/media/fullstory.aspx?id=20867

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/linguistics-and-philosophy/24-263-the-nature-of-creativity-fall-2005/

http://ocw.usu.edu/English/intermediate-writing/index.html

Our Rubric

http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Frubistar.4teachers.org%2Findex.php%3Fscreen%3DShowRubric%26rubric_id%3D2068872&h=JAQBu7gs5

this is the link where you can find the rubric for our technology lesson.

Romina Hurtado
Tania Gonzalez
Ingrid Pezoa

constructivism

Analyzing what I have seen during these years at the University about constructivism I can say that it is a good approach in order to teach and help students to “learn how to learn”. Throughout this line of thought, I can notice how important teacher guidance is in terms of building students` knowledge together. However, is extremely important bear in mind that sometimes we need to mix this method with others according to our students needs. For example, if there are students who learn in a more structured way we need to make some changes in our method. Finally I would like to say that teaching and learning must be flexible, no matter what method we are focused on.

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