Seeing Through New Eyes

I have been reading more and more about this lately. Since I am working on a meta-analysis with my professor Andrew Walker here at Utah State University I've been exposed to a lot of literature on the subject. But recently I have found that others are seeing the benefits this teaching strategy has for the K-12 area and how it benefits students so they can be better learners. This is so fascinating to me. I want younger people to be prepared to learn their entire lives. I want them to value learning and be motivated to learn. I am starting to see where PBL can be a great strategy to accomplish this. Now I just need to do some research on it and prove with empirical evidence that it is helpful...

Ok, so I have been terrible at keeping up this blog. I thought for sure I'd do it during school. Well, that didn't happen did it. Here's my attempt to begin going better. The last two semesters, which have been my first in the doctoral program, have been tough. It took me a while fall semester to get into the swing of things, but I think I've got the procedure down now. This semester hasn't been quite as bad. I am working on a meta-analytic review of the problem-based learning (pbl) literature. My professor Andrew Walker and I are coding pbl articles that display cognitive outcomes between traditional and pbl groups inside and outside of medical education. We have a presentation at AECT in October in California. I have learned so much about pbl, research, and meta-analysis by working with him. With everything else I am volunteering with a research group who has created a simple software called Instructional Architect . It collaborates with the National Science Digi...