After reading your blog, I found that Open Pedagogy fits very well with our group’s chosen topic. I find that due to the nature of sleep, being able to engage directly with that activity will help us greatly with finding answers to our essential questions. Therefore, we definitely should incorporate Open Pedagogy.
I also appreciate how you included additional resources if you wanted to learn more about Open Pedagogy. It really demonstrates creative ways to use hyperlinks, which I will definitely use in the future.
You’ve both defined Open Pedagogy and added your own useful insights. This is a very well-written blog post.
Project-Based Learning (PBL) is an instructional method that uses projects to guide the curriculum and teach a course. Skills like critical thinking and collaboration will be developed using this approach (“What is PBL?”, n.d). All projects should have essential questions. The project should be an answer to those questions. The instructor should present the group with a challenge to solve (Miller & Manderfeld, 2021). These steps should take as long as multiple weeks to a month. And ultimately result in a product/service being created.
Our group’s chosen topic is “Sleep”. Project-based Learning requires a problem to solve. In that regard, we can look at the essential questions our group has provided. One of our essential questions is “How does sleep impact our quality of life?”. With this given question, we have our challenge to solve.
Using knowledge and applying it is an important part of project-based learning; therefore, finding the benefits of sleep applies to this method. Creating a structured definition of sleep and healthy sleep, you can apply that knowledge to experiment with your sleeping habits. The result would be a paper of data about what does and does not work.
One question to think about when using project-based Learning to teach the topic of sleeping, is the incorporation of this topic in a group setting. PBL requires collaboration, so one challenge would be creating equal opportunities for team members to contribute for a single-person activity like sleep.
Interactive Learning Design
For our Interactive Learning Design, we will not incorporate PBL. PBL requires a product. Our group wants to use theory and quick discussion activities that are meant to encourage active class participation. Project-Based Learning requires at least weeks of attention to one learning activity. In this case, quick discussion groups, and evaluations are better for learning about one’s sleep than a project that may take too much time that is better spent elsewhere.
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