Week 7 Investment

Problem-based learning is a really cool concept that promotes critical thinking and for students to guide their own education. The student will get out of it what they want to put into it. Problem-based learning (PBL) starts with an initial problem and students in a group come together to solve it. Each student looks at the initial problem in a different way and that can prove to be inspiring for new ideas. 

This can also be helpful to get all students involved. PBL cannot be successful without everyone’s participation in the group. This type of learning can be used for an entire lesson or for just an activity in your lesson. I can see this being a great group work activity in the middle of a lesson. Maybe PBL can even be used in an interest approach. 

PBL is also important because it motivates students to learn more. With this learning style being inspired by the students. The student has total control in what they want to gain from the lesson. The only guidelines that need to be given are just the context. The rest of the inspiration for the lesson can be developed from the student’s motivation to learn more about a topic. 

This learning style can also support student diversity and getting different people to work together. This can be beneficial because not only is diversity important but it helps to get students exposed to new ideas. People from different cultures think differently and act differently but bring those people together can inspire new ideas! This is why PBL is so cool and important to be implemented in the classroom. 

I found this really cool video from Erasmus University. This quick video does a great job of explaining what is going on and how PBL can work. They explain the entire process from start to finish and include the importance of group work and include what it means for learning development. Watch this video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOXrPB2cwyg