Study the resources of the project Create your own Country and comment on its pedagogical value in your blog
Teaching Geography: Evaluate
I do believe that this project has fantastic pedagogical value qualities. The research paper "Investigating Pedagogical Value of Wiki Technology" explains that pedagogical value is "defined as the capacity of students to be engaged in learning by exhibiting interest in course assignments, retaining more material, participating actively, being motivated learners, and collaborating using constructivist learning principles" The purpose of this project was to have the students be in charge of learning about their own country and not about the teacher teaching them about a variety of different countries. By the time this project was over, students had to be experts in the country they were learning. Students have to research the Country name, landforms, the capital city, five cities, and natural resources for this project. They also had to research Ethnic Groups, population size, unemployment rate, government-type industries, and exports/Imports with very little help from the teacher. This shows pedagogical value because if they want to do good on this project with very little help from the teacher, they need to research these topics and then understand the resources they found on the topics. This all has to be done before creating a poster and presenting what they have learned to both the teacher and the rest of the class.
Teaching geography: Elaborate
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