Mindlab Week 18 Deciding on a question for our literature review
Not heading off to Petone at 3.30pm is a bit of a relief (especially as we are in 'the other valley') but we did like 'getting away' from school and be able to focus on our own learning without interruptions. It is nice to just get together here at school and discuss our responses to the course media in the context of our school. (Finding the key to Debbie's chocolate biscuit cupboard will make it even better) Also making decisions around our assignments together is so much easier than doing it by ourselves. We are were trying to decide on our question for our literature review, and we really want to keep going with our inquiry into whether play, problem, project, peer and passion learning leads to improved engagement and accelerated achievement, but we think that accessing peer-reviewed literature on this topic will be hard. (Even topics linked to PBL) So we have decided to choose another question around why children have great ideas to writing but may struggle to...