Motivating students through project work
Adam Stępiński
Motivating students through project work
Motivating students through project work
What do we need to bear in mind?
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Boosting students’ engagement
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Developing learners’
autonomy
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Autonomous student
motivated 29% responsible 19%
self-confident 16%open-minded 13%
creative 7%
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Autonomous teacher
supporting 29%flexible 23%
innovative 21%enthusiastic 10%
reflective 8%
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What are the teachers like in your school?
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What are the students like in your school?
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What would you change in your
school?
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- What does learner’s autonomy mean for teachers?
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- What does it mean for students?
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- How can we promote and develop student’s autonomy in our projects?
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- What can it be limited by?
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Inter-disciplinary
projects
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The big number of learning areas / school subjects in an interdisciplinary project will result in ...
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An autonomous environment will lead to ...
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Forming specialised teams (groups of students) working on specified fields and acting as experts in that particular area will benefit because ...
Motivating students through project work
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subject matters with ethic issues and students’ everyday experiences, this will ...
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are responsible for all the things we do / don’t do” mean that ...
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Unfinished sentences Feeling the freedom
from the constraints of the curriculum will lead to ...
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challenge and they will successfully cope with it, they will ...
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A greater possibility of modification of the instructional methodologies incorporated in the project (including visual, auditory, tactile and kinesthetic) will result in …
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Developing students' key competencies
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communication in the mother tongue , communication in foreign languages, mathematical competence and basic
competences in science and technology , digital competence, learning to learn, social and civic competences, sense of initiative and entrepreneurship, cultural awareness and expression.
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How often do you use a computer?
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Do you have this at home?
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New subjects in the future school
Which would be useful to learn about?
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I would like to become after graduation a person...
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What sort of skills and competencies do students want for themselves?
Are they really important?
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Structure of an interdisciplinary
project
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Balancing between the educational and enteraining
dimensions of the activity
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Use of media resources
and attractive means of
communication
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'Living Darfur' by Mattafix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQwCCm-H-sU
'Zombie' by the Cranberries
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ejga4kJUts
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IRIN Films http://www.irinnews.org/filmtv.aspx
'Facing History and Ourselves'
http://www.facinghistory.org/
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www.missioneurope.eu
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Some e- tools to motivate
students
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http://dfilm.com http://voicethread.com
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http://prezi.com/ http://edu.glogster.com
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www.myebook.com
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www.surveymonkey.com/
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http://digitalhistory.unl.edu/
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The Exhibit toolhttp://simile.mit.edu/exhibit/
An example:http://www.simile-widgets.org/exhibit/examples/presidents/presidents.html
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The Timeline toolhttp://simile.mit.edu/timeline
An example:http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/examples/jfk/jfk.html
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We need to ‘pump up’ students’
motivation all the time
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Ice breakers from
the Modules
http://www.etwinning.net/en/pub/inspiration/
modules.htm
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My beloved ice breakers
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Would you rather…or…
TV interview
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Some ideas for motivating projects incorporating History, Social Studies
and Geography
http://www.spicynodes.org/a/4ec51a9da2dd98004d7325c39639c525
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Some clues to consider while working on an interdisciplinary project:
1. when you decide on the topic, make sure that the project will stimulate your students to act creatively,
2. (in my opinion) it’s better when a project refers to different subjects and fields of learning,
3. make sure that the topic, activities, ways of communication are interesting for your students,
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4. while formulating the topic and deciding on the content:
-try to make them simple and catchy, -try to refer them to your students’ life and experiences, -don’t concentrate too much on the educational aspects
(the project should attract, not scary off) 5. give your students as much autonomy as possible, 6. your project should make a change (ways of work,
ways of thinking, gaining new skills and abilities, establishing new relations),
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7. allow them to decide on the electronic media and technology they would like to use in the project,
8. make sure that the project will let your students brainstorm ideas and discover solutions by original thinking processes,
9. try to match all the things you do within your project with students’ interests,
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10. vary activities balancing carefully between the educational and the enjoyable ones,
11. divide your work into smaller chunks (stages),
12. try to follow some order: from specifics to more general matters or the other way round,
13. try to incorporate songs, documentaries, movies (the participants belong to ‘the media generation’),
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14. let them use various computer applications (your students are also called ‘the Google generation’),
15. make sure that all the participants work on/create something together (not just add their materials),
16. you can appoint your students as experts in their national issues (social matters, history etc.) while your partners will have a similar role in case of the issues of their countries,
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17. evalute your activities (e.g. on a special forum on the project site),
18. make sure your students create something of value
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May your projects be
motivational, inspirational, engagiging,
creative and funny!