Commentary on Week 5 DISCUSSION: Assessment, Rubrics and PBL

Project-based Learning (PBL) is a more helpful, learner-friendly and voluntary participatory approach where learners are relatively released from the retention of language classroom and righteously happen to be learning. After reading the journal article entitled Focus on Basics (1998) by Susan Gaer, there bulged out many ways to help students motivate more using PBL. There are indeed many ways to help PBL in order to motivate a lot. Mainly, it releases freedom on the part of learners construing learning autonomy.
How can PBL be incorporated with technology in your class-or alternatively what limitation are there to using PBL in your class?

Limitations on PBL in My Classes
 

1. Access to the internet at home

2. Unbalanced team members due to unavailability of internet access

3.Much flexibility 

4. No holistic participation because of other additional classes of students 

5. Low effectiveness of guidelines because of aforementioned problems on the part of Ss

Role of rubrics and/or alternative assessment within PBL
Rubrics and alternative assessment are two of alternative assessment tools in assessing learning. Such assessment uses activities that reveal format and testing of the students' task seeking good points and being equally focused to performance of the learners, but not the weakness/es. So they are alternative tools to traditional ones. To be more specific, they help learners to be watchful on their both linguistic development and learning process: reflection-in-action and reflection-on-action promoting the upcoming reflection-for-action.
Alike to the alternative assessment tools, we can use more advanced content in the PBL from learners-oriented ones to teacher-planned ones.