Reading Reflection #6

Chapter 6: Project Launch---Implementation Strategies

1. Discuss how technology tools can encourage students to be reflective and evaluate their own strengths.

• Technology tools encourage students to reflect and evaluate their own strengths by because they are easy to use. the students become very familiar with how to build and apply to it. It helps them track their progress toward their goal and they gain new skills in troubleshooting delays or other setbacks. 

2. Describe several ways in which you can get students’ minds ready for a project.

• In order to get students ready for a project, the teacher must first activate the students' prior knowledge. Get the students attention and give them ideas to settle their imaginations. encourage your students to explore and think about the topic and discuss their ideas with peers. 

3. Discuss the elements of teaching fundamentals first.

• Before beginning a project, a teacher must teach prerequisite knowledge or skills students needs in order to work with the degree of independence in their own investigations. As a student starts to wonder, encourage deeper questioning with transforming questions like "why?", "should", and "how" questions that will lead to more complex and interesting investigations. Also, giving a student an assessment rubric is like a road map to great achievement. Discuss the dimensions of performance and the scale of each values for rating performance on each dimension. 

4. Describe the important steps in preparing students for using technology in project.

• In order to prepare students for a technology project, the teacher must set up opportunities for students to learn by and among themselves. Set up a technology playground for students to explore. Learning to use technology or an application for a project can be a rich problem-solving experience in itself. Let technology able students teach others. Have a student use a project log in order to help them track their progress towards goals. Also,If you are comfortable with the tools students use, demonstrate their use.

5. Discuss ways to promote inquiry and deep learning.

• In order to promote inquiry and deep learning is to guide students and have them choose questions, plan investigations, and begin to put their plan into action. Engaging projects goes into many directions and they learn many things together, students are challenged to explored their own interest too. Guide students toward skilled questioning by imagining what practitioners or experts might ask.

6. Discussion on how concepts in this chapter relate to your topic/project.

• The concepts in this chapter relate to my project because the use of technology and learning more on how to use it is a great way of students collaborating with one another. Students who do not know much about technology can be helped by those who do and that student can benefit that student by applying their own strengths.