Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Ch 4
Ch 4 was interesting
in that play, passion, and purpose was brought up again a couple of times in chapter
four and id the commonality of all three social entrepreneurs. If we can
get these students to engage in the play. We will create opportunity for passion and purpose.
In doing so we will create more social entrepreneurs. I also like that the
chapter talked about service in the community. At Woodmont HS on my Bass Team
we are collecting canned food itemsfor the homeless and the anglers are also going to volunteering at a soup kitchen in Greenville.This is real life. If the kids have a purpose I feel that they
will rise to challenge if they feel it is worth doing. I think this why PBL is
such a great way to teach students.
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" If the kids have a purpose I feel that they will rise to challenge if they feel it is worth doing. I think this why PBL is such a great way to teach students." It is so weird that we are hearing things like passion, play, intrinsic and extrinsic as if they are new to us. These concepts are the foundation of living and what we all seek in all aspects of living. Learning is a natural process and so it makes sense that your students will rise to the occasion when doing projects like a food drive as they innately understand we should do good through helping others and they subconsciously seek out those types of opportunities to get that feeling of pride but the even greater feeling of joy in being a GOOD part and participant in the world they live in.
ReplyDeleteI agree that students will rise to the challenge. I see schools like Wade Hampton raising 200,000 dollars for Hope. Our school does a good job at Christmas with raising $ for families for Christmas. I think all students have the passion and play it is just harder for some of them to find it. I actually have a student next semester and she is one of 13 children. We were talking about my project from the 1st PBL class and she said she didnt have toys when she was growing up. She said that she and her siblings played outside with sticks and rocks. This student is a straight A student and is very motivated as were her older siblings. This is a great example of why PBL works.
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ReplyDeleteRichard -
ReplyDeleteThank you for your response. Play is so very important to all of us. It's our interests, our hobbies, the things that captivate our attention. As education, we all know utilizing our students' interests can have a major impact on our students' academic/cognitive engagement. Utilizing our students interest to inform our work with curriculum requires that we commit ourselves to student-centered, personalized learning. Is this "safe" and "comfortable?" Maybe not, but the payoff we will find has tremendous implications for school and student performance. Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us!