Bb Vista Week 6 Task

Applying Understanding Strategy in classroom

I created a story of my imagination for two emirate students, Khalid, and Talal. Khalid lives in Dubai and study IT while Talal lives in US and he study Business, they use their facebook accounts to communicate with each other. through out the drawing of this story plus some YouTube videos related to it, I explored to my students how Internet traffic is moving from Khalid’s laptop to his ADSL then to Etisalat and how Etisalat route this traffic out to AT&T in US then to Talal’s Laptop, plus illustrating what is happening behind the scenes when you type facebook in your browser and how it is converted to something that machine can understand it and how it is doing this function, and a lot of other core concepts that they need to know about Internet and browsing.
My Conclusion is that, creating social narrative that is directly related to students’ every-day life is really a good way to illustrates basic concepts.

Another good example; we had a project with our students about wireless to apply it in certain area in our college, once project started they start their research on best tools to use in wireless survey then they start acquiring knowledge about core concepts in wireless design and implementations, they used many resources (Internet, discussions, asking experts/technical individuals,..), I was amazed that new technical areas they had to read and understand about it to do their project properly. they really did a good job and they build a structured knowledge based on their
hands on experience on that project.
my conclusion is that applying project-based/research-based education is very powerful way for understanding specially in areas like IT.