Reading Reflection 6

1. Discuss how technology tools can encourage students to be reflective and evaluate their own strengths.
Technology tools can encourage students to be reflective and evaluate their own strengths. It can also offer a captivating introduction to a project.

2. Describe several ways in which you can get students’ minds ready for a project.
To get students ready, you'll need to get an idea of what they know about the project and find a way to excite their curiosity about the project. Invite them to open their eyes to the different possibilities the project can have and encourage them to think about the topic. Have them discus the idea with their friends and family. AS you slowly introduce the project in bits and pieces, their curiosity makes them more willing to participate in the project.

3. Discuss the elements of teaching fundamentals first.
To make sure the basics are covered for your project, it is best to teach prerequisite knowledge that the students will need. Many times big projects contain many fundamentals that need to be covered and without proper knowledge of these fundamentals, students will have lacking projects from lacking information. Fundamentals also set a starting point for indepentent inquiry where students put their prior knowledge with their new questions.

4. Describe the important steps in preparing students for using technology in project.
The important steps to preparing students for technology are:

• Set up a technology background- consider how you could teach them to teach themselves using opportunities
• Tap student expertise- let the more technologically ableled students teach the less able
• Introduce Project Management Tools- Use logs or journals to help them track their progress
• Demonstrate- show them how it's done

5. Discuss ways to promote inquiry and deep learning.
Guide students as they choose questions, plan investigations, ad begin to put their plan into action. Have them further explore their thinking and ideas. They explore the ways to combine social studies with academics in the learning ahead.

6. Discussion on how concepts in this chapter relate to your topic/project.
We've been using a lot of new and interesting types of technology for the different parts of our project.