Double Entry Journal #8

Inquiry based learning is often new to teachers and students; therefore it may cause a little confusing and difficulty in implementing these types of lessons.  Inquiry based learning requires simultaneous changes in curriculum, instruction, and assessment practices. 

Reinforcing Effort:  In this researched based strategy it talks about how student’s attitudes and beliefs affect how well they learn something.  This is similar to project based learning in a sense that students will be building off of what they already ready know and are already interested in.  If students are interested in something then they will be more willing to learn about it. 

Nonlinguistic Representation: In this researched based strategy it is suggested that students need to receive information both using linguistic and nonlinguistic methods.  This is similar to project-based learning because students are building or creating a project that can be learned from.  Students are not only verbally learning and describing what they are doing but they are building it as well, therefore it can be seen. 

Simulations and Games:  Throughout this article is discusses how the more students learn through multiple strategies the more they will become familiar with the new concept.  With project based learning students learn the information and then build something that represents what they have learned in order to reinforce their new knowledge.  This is giving them multiple ways of looking at an aspect and how to understand it.  When students observe other classmates’ ways of viewing things and the projects that they come up with, it will give them even more ways of viewing the information.