"Project-based learning is an educational approach where students learn by completing a project that addresses a real-world problem or question. It involves collaborative and interdisciplinary work, allowing students to develop critical thinking, problem-solving, communication, and other important skills that are essential for success in the 21st century workplace. This approach has been shown to increase student engagement, motivation, and achievement."
(Stephanie Bell, 2010)
Why is project-based learning good for students?
Because it develops these important skills:
PBL effectively develops several skills that will be essential in workplaces of the future. By incorporating PBL into their teaching practice, educators can give their students the tools they need to thrive in a rapidly changing world.
How does Redmenta support project-based learning?
As Redmenta automatically saves the solutions, students can work on a project for several days without losing their previous work. The teacher only has to ensure that there is no time limit when completing the worksheet.
The project can even last a whole week! We show an example of how a multi-day project can be run on Redmenta, which we divided into different phases according to the goals of the day.
We start the first day with an information gathering phase, where the student can get to know the essence of the project and start processing the course material independently.
Thanks to the content structuring and storytelling worksheet elements, the project worksheets can contain descriptions, illustrations, videos , PDF and Canva presentations outside of the task, which can serve as additional information (even as teaching material). Learn more about these worksheet elements here: https://redmenta.com/demo_storytelling
Good idea is to complete the information-gathering phase should with creative tasks, which helps deepen the collected material. For example:
On the following day, exciting tasks will come as part of a research project. The project worksheets may include thought-provoking, longer tasks, which requires more time and preliminary research work.
This phase is excellent for re-thinking your prior knowledge and obtaining additional information that will help you solve the upcoming tasks on the third day.
The phase on Wednesday is for realizing an idea, which builds on the information gathered earlier. Being familiar with the topic, the students can come up with a unique solution that presents even the smallest details of the acquired knowledge.
In the next phase, the main role goes to the planning. Here students can plan the presentation of their work in advance.
By listing the arguments, students can emphasizes the strengths of their work, while also showing their knowledge on the topic.
In the last phase, the presentation of the idea comes, which focuses exclusively on the finished work (after the video made the previous day already revealed what knowledge studnetns have acquired on the subject).
Here, based on the previous arguments, students can present the implementation process.
The limited time frame of the video makes the task more difficult, but it encourages to collect the essential aspects, as well as to formulate precisely. It also aims to improve speaking skills.
If you are interested in the entire project worksheet presented as an example in the description, click on the link below and be inspired by these hghly creative tasks:
https://redmenta.com/project_based_learning_demo
We are interested in your way! If you have already created a project worksheet on Redmenta, send us the link of the worksheet to support@redmenta.com and share your comments with us!
These personal examples and suggestions help us a lot, as we are constantly improving existing and still missing Redmenta functions based on them. Share your thought so you can create even more exciting worksheets for your students in the future!
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