Going back to school as a student is a reveling experience for faculty members. Many things can be learned to improve the academic experience and to embrace the needs of students once teachers come back to their classrooms. In her article When the Teacher Becomes the Student, Dr. Maryellen Weimer reacts to the finding of brave teachers who survived the challenge and told us about it.
Problem base learning creates a new dimension in education. In this article Mike Gorman from 21st Century Educational Technology and Learning talks about the idea of "Driving and Investigative Questions" and how these concepts take part in real inquire and research. He also place the two actions, driving and investigating, among verbs in the higher order thinking area of Bloom's Taxonomy. According to Gorman, by facilitating PBL and inquiry students come together to create productive discussions, and converge ideas. Gorman also advises teacher how to create the "questions" and provides samples. Read the Part1:Facilitating Inquiry in the Classroom ... Driving and Investigative Questions".
