Blog 5: Anne Glynn

From PBL in a group environment I have learnt decision making is full of compromise, and when working in a group there are more variables to organisation. This required me to consider other people’s perspectives and why they think in particular ways. This is an important skill as a teacher because part of Quality Teaching and inclusiveness is to treat all knowledge as problematic. It gave me a realistic hands on opportunity to question my own knowledge and gain a deep understanding of the project from what others brought with them and what we found as a group. In addition, it meant we really had to think about the task, in difference when working as an individual critical choices are only made through one perspective. Ultimately, we realised, which is reflected in PBL that there is not one solution to anything. Other than decision making the biggest difficulty was making time to work outside of class. This is realistic to expect university students to do this, as these skills will be beneficial for staffroom collaboration. We overcame this by putting together all of the times we couldn’t work then finding gaps in between rather than someone cancelling each time.  Throughout the project we had opportunities to interact with many technologies that will be beneficial to classroom teaching and learning. These included, Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Outlook, Adobe Premiere, Illustrator and Photoshop, Video cameras and Nero Burning Rom. As a group we had varied knowledge of these technologies therefore the end result of the film reflects our developed knowledge. When we had technology issues we would research or ask people with expertise how to use something. If there was an issue with decision making, we would decide through whoever could show the most evidence to support their point, or others within the group would help explain.