PBL Scenario Summary Video

Task_3-6 Reflection

1. Why is it important to use teams in PBL?
- It is important to use teams in PBL because it is a relatively large project. It requires a lot of time, thought and planning to successfully complete each component. Each week it was broken down into smaller steps allowing everyone to have the equal opportunity to contribute work.

2. What are some of the problems you see in student teams?
- Not everyone does an equal amount of work. Some people lost track of who the facilitator was each week, causing some people to go above and beyond multiple weeks in a row. Doing it online, doesn't help much either because not everyone is online at the same time. Versus having a student team in a classroom at a designated time.

3. What strategies can you use to manage conflict in student teams?
- Some strategies that we used to manage conflict in our group were to not butter things up and to express how we all felt all the time. We made sure that we divided the work up equally and when others fell short on their weeks, others took up the slack but whoever helped out extra let the team leader for that week know that's not acceptable.

4.  Did the group have any problems or questions this week?
- No we did not. Communication was excellent this week.

Task 3-4 Reflection

1.    What ideas have you contributed to your team this week?
- I contributed my part this week by uploading my ideas on what Authentic assessments meant to me. I also uploaded my part for the current event and contributed to the google doc by defining and explaining authentic assessments and a website that I found helpful
2.    What role did you play on your team this week?
- Just a member that did my share
3.    How did you encourage and support your team members this week?
Just making sure we all did our part, we were really honest this week about work loads
4.    Did the group have any questions or problems this week?
- Just some clarification on what the facilitator should be doing, and other group members. But we got it all squared away. 

Task Reflection 3-3

1.    What ideas have you contributed to your team this week?
- This week I was the facilitator, so I contributed alot. I guided everyone this week, created the blog post and also divided up everyone's task for the scenario, while completing the scenario through google docs.
2.    What role did you play on your team this week? The facilitator
3.    How did you encourage and support your team members this week? I tried to stay in touch with everyone and thanked them for their hard work!
4.    Did the group have any questions or problems this week?
- I think that only thing that we had problems with was just understanding what was being asked of us. Once we clarified that we were fine. 

Teaching and Technology

 

Today a lot of what we do in our every day lives is based around technology. Out of the entire United States 78% of us have and use our smart phones daily, and every 4 in 5 families have at least one computer, either desktop or laptop. Which is primarily why education is moving in the same direction. In Teaching and Learning with Technology, Judy Lever-Duffy points out "Teachers know instinctively that the more interactive and multisensory they make their teaching the more likely learning will occur. Common sense and instructional experiences have taught us that a lesson delieved with both aaudio and visual support. Few people would disagree."

Mililani High School
 
At Mililani High School, quite a few of there classes incorporate the use of audio visuals, along with new and up to date tech equipment. In their foreign languages department, Senora Brown, teachs her students that practice makes perfect using the new Ipad 3, when it first came out. Her lesson plans were constructed around the use of the Ipads, for interactive games, talk aloud practices, quizzes, and so much more. She even has her students present their mid-term "If you could travel one place around the world.." project through the ipad technologies, but connected to a smart board, so everyone could see.


Mid- Pac Institution

Another serious contender on Oahu, is the private school Mid-Pac. They have developed many interactive courses that involve the use of technology. Like in the picture above, they use a classroom ipad to predict what will happen in their scientific experiment. The ipad can compare and contrast the students predictions, oberservations, and facts of what actually happen to help compare accuracy. Mid Pac, has adapted to new ways because they feel that by actively incorporating technology into the classroom they have more student-centered learning. More and more students have speaking up and chosing their own learning path as they continue to build a professional learning community that includes teachers, students and their parents.Visual learning, has given them many authentic experiences, and also them to have a wide variety of assessment methods beyond the a-typical standardized test.

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Introductions: TORI DELOS SANTOS

Tori Delos Santos

(Photo Taken: June 2012 This is a photo of my fiancee, Lyle and I)

Favorite Gadget: 

My favorite gadet, is definitely my android cell phone. I too like everyone else have a tablet and a computer but my phone has to be my favorite because I work for a cell phone carrier. Cell phones is how i communicate, make a living, and stay on track in life. My cell phone is constantly going off whether it be from work or school emails, appointment reminders, work schedules, facebook updates, instagram notifications, etc. If I were to ever loose my phone I would definitely be lost, and that's putting it lightly. 

Skills and Traits:

I am the type of student that definitely likes to stay organized and turn things in early. I some how always end up taking a leadership role and like to guide my group and I to success. The biggest skill that I carry is my sense of organization. I like planning out every little detail to assignments and making sure that everyone has a task to complete. My second skill would be the fact that I like to be very creative and think outside the box. A lot of times this makes assignments take a little longer, but hey that's what you have to do to get that A and to eventually become a successful teacher!

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