LESSON 16

     USING THE PROJECT – BASED MULTIMEDIA AS A TEACHING – LEARNING STRATEGY

Objective:

1. To know the steps involved in the use of project-based multimedia learning strategy.

ABSTRACTION

Goals and objectives are always the starting points of planning. When we plan a multimedia learning project as a teaching stat clarifying our goals and objectives.  From the list of objectives and content found in the K to 12 Curriculum Guide, we select which one will lend themselves to a project –base multimedia learning strategy. Since this strategy requires much time we have to spend as seen against time available or face failure and disappointment afterwards.

          Another  important thing is to determine the resources available from library materials, community resources both material and human, Internet, news media – since this project calls for multimedia. To trim down time devote to a multimedia project, Simkins et al (200) suggest the following:

·         Use technology students already know.

·         Use time outside of class wherever possible. Assign skills practices as homework.

·         Use “special” classes (like art or music) as extra time.

·         Let students compose text and select and prepare graphics and sounds as they plan. Consider the possibility of yours students doing original researches themselves.

·         Let us make clear to our students our policy on decision making and collaboration for smooth working relations.

·         Finally, we must  have a plan on how we are going to evaluate learning.

     So you have decided on the objectives and content with which to use the project-based multimedia strategy and have determined resources available. What are you going to do next. Simkins et al (200) suggest the following:

BEFORE THE PROJECT STARTS

1.  Create project description and milestones. Put in a nutshell what your project is all about. Describe your project in forty (40) words or less. Include your instructional goals and objectives. Include the project components students will be responsible for and their due date. B writing a brief abstract of your project, you have a full grasp of the essence of your project and that your focus will not get derailed.

A milestone may look like this:

Stane	Estimated Time
Before the project starts	2 weeks
Introducing the project	1-2 days
Learning the technology	1-3 days
Preliminary research and planning	3 days- 3 weeks

Concept design and story boarding	3-5 days
First draft production	1-3 weeks
Assessing, testing, and finalizing presentation	1-3 weeks
Concluding activities	1-3 weeks
Total class time	5-13 weeks

                                                  Figure 30. Overview of a Typical Project

2. Work with real –world connection. If you have people outside the classroom involved as clients or assessors (evaluators) work with them to make an appropriate schedule and include their ideas for activities.

3. Prepare resources. Seek the assistance of your librarian or school media

LESSON - XVII

ASSESSMENT IN A CONSTRUCTIVIST, TECHNOLOGY – SUPPORTED LEARNING

Objective:   

1. To identify  which form of assessment fits a constructivist technology – supported learning environment

ABSTRACTION

From the conversation we gather that some students:

o   Memorizing very much for the test. Fit their style of test preparation to the kind of test and

o   Study only for passing score and a passing grade

`The question we raise are:  “Is it really bad to memorize for the test?”  and  “ Is it not good to study  for  score and for a grade? The answer to both questions is a NO. it is not bad to memorize  for the test. Examines even take in Memory Plus  food supplement to increase their power to memorize. Neither is it bad  to study for scores and grade, however, we should go beyond memorizing for tests and we should not study only for a passing score and a passing grade.

In a constructivist classroom, learning transcend memorization of facts. It is putting these isolated facts together, from concepts and making meaning out of them. It is connecting the integration of these facts and concepts to daily life. It is seeing the relevance of these facts and concepts to what we value and treasure in life. If that is what learning is from the eyes of the constructivists, then definitely, the pure memorization (sometimes without understanding done for a mere recall test does not jibe with such belief.

What then is the assessment practice that will be congruent with the constructivist’s thinking? It is a higher level form of assessment that will require the display of the basic skills of writing and speaking, computing and the more complex  skills of applying  concepts learned, analyzing, critiquing and evaluating, integrating and creating and the social skills of working with call for alternative  forms of assessments. The traditional paper – and – pencil  test will prove to be inadequate to measure basic skills and social skills.

Authentic assessment is most appropriate for the constructivist classroom. ( You will learn more about authentic assessment in your two subjects on assessment.) authentic assessments measures  collective abilities, written and oral expression skills, analytical skills, manipulative skills, (like computer skills) integration, creativity, and ability to work collaboratively.

In authentic assessment, students perform real – world tasks, thus the word “authentic”.  It is an assessment  of a process or a product. That is why authentic assessment  includes performance or product assessment. The performance is a reliable  measure of skills learned and the product is a proof of the acquisition of skills. These performance and product are assessed. Again the mere paper – and – pencil test cannot evaluate these. So what do we need? We need to observe  and evaluate and, to do it more objectively, with the aid of the scoring rubric. ( You will be taught how to make a scoring in rubric in your assessment courses.) for now it may be sufficient  to see a sample of a scoring rubric to get an idea of what it is about and to see its place in assessment.