Learning skills project

Learning skills project

In the beginning of this semester the doctor who is the coordinator D\ hasan darami  for learning skills asked us to Distribute into groups and each group has to make a project about any topic the group choose but it has to be related to medicine or learning skills . we were 7 student  in my group . the doctor give us the hall semester to make this project 

(The start of working  )

choosing a topic was the first challenge so we decided to convene meeting in very early time just after to days of getting the task

in that meeting the first thing we talked about is choosing the topic of the project . After several discussions the group decided to choose my suggestion which was  ( the breast cancer )  

after that we talked about what should this project include?

In any project we should come out with research . so making research about breast cancer is the first Required . then we asked each other what should the research include and here is the list of  Research topics

1-introduction

 

2-causes of breast cancer 

  

3-breast cancer diagnosis

 

4-treatment

 

5-prevention

 

Every on of the group has one of the previous topics to Write about .also we think add something to the project to make it  The best and the  most memorable  .

We agreed to add two thing

1-      Making Servey about the breast cancer

2-      Creating account on twitter to write information about this disease

 

   At the end of the meeting we decided to but dead line for project trying to be the first group who finish the project To show the extent of our commitment

We give ourselves a month to finish our project

 

Presenting of the project to the doctor ))

After a month and at the same time of dead line we presented our project to doctor / hasan drami  

And the feedback was very good. We were the first group who finish

And we come out with very good results .

The research was completed Won the doctors  admiration   

The survey give A wonderful way Unexpected.  we got about 400 responses in less than a week

 

 

Our account on twitter has more than 300 followers  right now ( we don’t start tweeting officially )

 

 

 

The end

*( I will write about my feedback  later )

 

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PBL

Pbl (Problem based learning )

 

The idea of pbl is to make the student  study about some objective and get the knowledge  by solving problems . The PBL format originated from the medical school of thought, and is now used in other schools of thought too . in pbl students identify what they already know, what they need to know in order to solve the problem . which lead them to search and read in many resources .that will improve their skills of researching and finding the objectives that in they need to solve the case or get the diagnosis .

This way of learning starts in the medical school program at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada in the late 1960s by Howard Barrows and his colleagues

Using  pbl at first was to teach the medical student how to apply the Basic Sciences on real cases so they get case contains Patient who has symptoms  and they should know what is the diagnosis

In my opinion it is very important way of learning specially in medicine colleges

Because the medical student should learn how to work in group,what are the information and  how to get the information from the books and Reliable sources and they have to know how to relate between the basics sciences and  clinical apply

 Defining Characteristics of PBL: 

WHAT:	HOW?	WHY?
Student-centered & Experiential	Select authentic assignments from the discipline, preferably those that would be relevant and meaningful to student interests.  Students are also responsible for locating and evaluating various resources in the field.	Relevance is one of the primary student motivators to be a more self-directed learner
Inductive	Introduce content through the process of problem solving, rather than problem solving after introduction to content.	Research indicates that �deeper� learning takes place when information is introduced within a meaningful context.
Builds on/challenges prior learning	If the case has some relevance to students, then they are required to call on what they already know or think they know. By focusing on their prior learning, students can test assumptions, prior learning strategies, and facts.	The literature suggests that learning takes placewhen there is a conflict between prior learning and new information.
Context-specific	Choose real or contrived cases and ground the count in the kinds of challenges faced by practitioners in the field.	Again, context-specific information tends to be learned at a deeper level and retained longer.
Problems are complex and ambiguous, and require meta-cognition	Select actual examples from the �real life� of the discipline that have no simple answers. Require students to analyze their own problem solving strategies.	Requires the ability to use higher order thinking skills such as analysis, synthesis, evaluation, and creation of new knowledge.
Creates cognitive conflict	Select cases with information that makes simple solutions difficult: while the solution may address one part of a problem, it may create another problem.  Challenges prior learning as noted above.	The literature suggests that learning takes place when there is a conflict between prior learning and new information.
Collaborative & Interdependent	Have students work in small groups in order to address the presented case	By collaborating, students see other kinds of problem solving strategies used, they discuss the case using their collective information, and they need to take responsibility for their own learning, as well as their classmates�.

  

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