PROJECT -BASED LEARNİNG

   According to the research carried out by the scientists roughly beetween 1980s and 1990s, It was proven that as long as the students were bored and independent in classroom, they were no doubtedly learned little even, the best students who got  high levels in the exams, lacked of a deeper conceptual understanding of material because of the shallow knowledge they acquired in high school.

   Learning scientist came up with an idea that cognitive sciencewould be successfull in assisting students and surroundingthem with high structure of deeper conceptual understanding, excluding the superficial teaching system applied  in schools.

   A project-based classroom,unlike in traditional classrooms, enable students to investigate questions,assert hypothesis and explanations, and direct them to discuss the topics which have been chosen from the real life experiences .

   It is reasonable to isolate the process of Project-Based Learning into 5 steps, in which a driving question is scattered, both exploration and expressions of ideas are implemented by the students, a classroom which indicates collaborative activities is voluntarily formed, cognitive tools such as computers are provided to stimulate the students take part in activities, and eventually because students are are exposed to discourse, they will have the oppurtunity to adopt a concrete example of product for future use.

   There are 5 ways of understanding how students learn, one of which is Active Construction that wholly captures the learner’s experiences and interactions in the world. Situated learning, on the hand, brings about changes on students allowing them to grasp the value and meaning of of the tasks and activities in the classroom rather than solely making them go through the coursebook.

   Use of variable cognitive tools in the classroom affects student’s accessing and collecting a range of scientific data and information. It also provides visualization.

   The passage explains that a claim, evidence, and reasoning, are main factors of framework while learning. At the end of the course of Project-Based Science what is expected from the students is that they should be well qualified to interpret a given set of findings in another way.

 Especially, teachers should be on the alert that students are made groups of two, so that they will be have the chance of comparing one another’s opinions.

Question 1 ) Even though it is said that activities applied in classroom should make sense, will students be able to utilize the knowledge outside of classroom?

Question 2 )Wouldn’t it be wise to say that technology is a great tool of easy-access to get any knowledge the learners wants?