Project Based Learning

My idea about teaching learning process was completely diverted when my teacher came to us and introduced Project Based Learning. NO MORE CHALK AND TALK and the learning outcomes are depends only on STUDENTS.

Date back to 2008 when I was in my Form 4 of middle school, this project was said to be REALLY EARLY for Malaysians and it was highly practiced even in Africa! Shocking but true, we are waaay left behind.

The idea of learning, through project building, producing the outcomes thru website or even PHYSICAL experiment (real volcanoes thingey experiment made by my friends) were being focused to enhance learning interest for certain topics. Personally I think it was to increase out cognitive development so that our neurones growing rapidly and dont die sia-sia. Because most of students DONT THINK, they just ACCEPT, SIT AND EAT EVERYTHING. SIT-EAT-CHEW-DIGEST-DEFECATE and that's the whole cycle of knowledge obtained in school. And then we also overload our brain activity by memorizing during examinations. I know it is wrong to generalize, but thats the common process i can come with, happens to most of Malaysian students.

At my school, it was only introduced to 2(TWO) top classes, and even only 2 schools in Gombak (SMK Sungai Pusu and SBPI Gombak) were in trial of this learning style. We were given dateline to build a project and then suited up men(LOL) from MOE will come and checking it out, wheather or not the learning session was working, observing how was the project running and its implementation towards schools in Malaysia.
Eventho the current entry in this blog supposed to be CURRENT teaching trend, I think that PBL is a current 'thang' since our gov hasnt implement it to schools. It was fun before, to dig out information, to build our own website regarding our research(according to given topic) but deep down I still think that it could be better to have a real teacher, than to dig out everything by our own (eventho we were observed by our teacher to achieve every single milestone). I LOVE OLDSCHOOL TEAAACHIINGGGGGG *screams out loUd using a healer* Muahaha.

LoveChemistry; a website created for PBL in 2008

To know better about Project Based Learning(PBL), you can Google it out. It is boring to copypaste everything so the entire entry is plainly my experience. You can also look out for a website build by me and friends in 2008 for PBL here .

It was busy entering university that we forgot the password and never changed anything to the website so don't complain on what we resembled on the profile section (thekami). We were normal-happy-immature sixteen y/o teenagers. LOL