maybe success is measured best by nothing less than our obedience. - J.N.

October 4, 2007

Why Problem-based Learning is so effective...

“In a real-life problem, you’re rarely given all the information you need in one tidy package; you often have to collect the data and often from a variety of sources. There’s rarely only one possible method or strategy that emerges from real-life problems; usually you choose one from several viable possibilities. You don’t always know for sure if the solution you choose is the “right” or “best” one; you decide on one plausible solution and it may be only later that you ca evaluate your choice. Sometimes you never find out for sure; life has no answer book. When solving problems in real life, you call upon all the resources you’ve developed in other situations – knowledge, previous experience, intuition. You need to analyze, predict, make decisions, and evaluate. In order to function in our complex and changing society, people need to be able to solve a wide variety of problems.”

- Marilyn Burns



I think this passage encapsulates why pbl rocks.


(ahahha... I only update when I have a case study due the next day... ugh!)

2 comments:

Helen said...

booooring....

hahaha

did you steal stuff from my bathroom?!

carmen said...

why, it's not boring at all! simply fascinating, my fellow beginning professional teacher! ;) heeheehee.... how nerdy. really though, your program sounds quite interesting, very different from mine (i can explain later). the best eh? we'll have to see. :)
i start my first practicum next Tuesday. ahhh! Can I have your resources on parent-teacher relations?? haha..
happy thanksgiving to the sniders! remember Hebrews 12:28-29 ^^