What does Project Based Learning mean to you? Here is what Mrs Uchenna Onwuamaegbu-Ugwu, the CEO of Edufun Technik had to say about the subject, today, during a 30-minute interactive program on Odenigbo radio 99.1 FM—
\”PBL is a teaching method that helps students to gain knowledge and skills by working for a period of time, to #research on and react to a complex challenge or question.
\”PBL is viewed as a perfect model for classroom activity which shifts learning instructions away from teacher-centered to student-centered projects.
PBL is also called \’Learning By Doing.\”\’
Here are the few PBL examples she gave—
• Design a mobile App
• Research Project: eg. disadvantages of Artificial Intelligence in Education
• Robots Building using easily available materials like shaped woods or metals.
• Student Farming in a garden, eg. tilling the soil and planting of corn seeds.
• Write to your Community Leader about a challenge in your community, eg. the health threats of random waste disposal on the streets.
• Geocaching, eg. searching for a bag of books hidden at the backyard using a GPS tracker
Mrs Onwuamaegbu-Ugwu also pointed out that young students can learn about polymers by engaging in hands-on activities using locally available materials like leather, nylons, woods, and shrinking potato chips in the microwave.
Highlighting the many benefits of PBL for kid\’s education, Mrs Onwuamaegbu-Ugwu also listed these—
• PBL allows a child to demonstrate his capabilities while working independently.
• PBL unveils a child\’s ability to harness needed skills such as conducting a research work.
• PBL develops the child\’s ability to work with his/her peers by building teamwork spirit.
• PBL helps students to teach their fellow students by providing an environment for senior students to share knowledge and other useful skills with junior students.
• PBL reduces the amount of time teachers spend on teaching individual students.
• PBL helps prepare children for the future work place.
• PBL helps children develop strong sense of imagination, conception, subject knowledge, creativity, learning planning, and complete a task, and also learn and develop more skills.
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