Talk:Project-based learning

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On 22 Mar 2005, this article was nominated for deletion. See Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Project Based Learning. Rossami (talk) 04:57, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC) I am writing extensivly on this topic now. I am basically dog tired exhuasted at the moment, but I will recover sometime soon. Then I will straighten out grammar errors, and insert supporting links.

From Middle School Science on Wikiveristy

The word "project" from project Science is loaded.

I think I can put the issues that inspire project Science in bullet form:

kids develop a relationship with the world as they become more aware of it
as they begin to socialize and interrelate, this relationship develops into a shared conception
when they get to school, and teachers try to straighten them on certain misconceptions,
they think the teachers are crazy

Kids will tell you what you want to hear, but they think they are really being taught patience with elders. As soon as they back with their friends, the misconceptions are restored, and all is well from their perspective.

The project, or group, science, strategy is to allow them to discover the realities of science on their own by providing them with much the same equipment that our early scientists had, such as prisms, telescopes, microscopes. Their misconceptions are not actually wrong so much as "intelligently wrong," and often the entire community holds the same misconceptions. Here is were the true value is; as the students develop scientific technique and learn how things really are, they go back home and tell their parents what they did. In this way the entire community gets educated -- now that's value.

Science today is seeing a rise in the social science; as we apply scientific technique to social situations, we are far better able to get from these situations the kinds of results we are looking for. When kids do this, they can better experiment with life and conclude earlier what it is that they are good at, and what they like to do. This gives them factors better chances of getting the highest potential out of life, of self-actualizing.John van v 23:12, 2 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]