Reading Reflection #8

There isn't necessarily a point to project based learning if your class can't pull the information from their story board, slide show, movie, etc. and respond with meaning to what we want them to learn (Let's be real). So by conducting a classroom discussion that is productive and insightful is so very important to the student and the teacher. Each level of classroom discussion plays a large role in who is learning. I really like how the book mentions that when the students are discussing they should be talking about everything as it happens and ask one another questions as they need to. I learn the most when I talk with my table mates. A lot of them times they way they explain something it is 10 times better understood than when the teacher tried to explain it. The level of classroom discussion that can benefit both at the same time would definitely be teacher to student or when the teacher and student communicate. The teacher has the opportunity to ask higher-order questions in which the entire class can be involved in. This gives everyone the chance to reall think about the project they just did and think about the outcomes that they received and why that happened.