Gamification 101 (ISTE 2013) How to lecture in a PBL classroom. By Mike Kaechele In reading comments to John Spencer's post about The Problem with PBL I felt like people have a bit of a narrow view of PBL.
It felt like many define it as students engaged in a project, usually inquiry based. PBL at its heart and soul is a process that can include any teaching style in it including simulations, research, individual and group work, and yes even lecturing. So here is how lectures fit into the PBL model.
How to Create a Blended High School. Last week I visited a team planning a new high school, a team planning to reinvigorate a high school, and operators of a couple high performing networks.
They were all positive about the emerging opportunities of blended learning but all had similar questions about models, platforms, and content. Following are 10 tips for launching a blended high school or phasing blended strategies into an existing school. 1. Start with goals. What is PBL? How Does Project-Based Learning Work? Tools for understanding the process of planning and building projects.
Project-based learning, as with all lessons, requires much preparation and planning. It begins with an idea and an essential question. When you are designing the project and the essential question that will launch the activities, it is important to remember that many content standards will be addressed. With these standards in mind, devise a plan that will integrate as many subjects as possible into the project. Have in mind what materials and resources will be accessible to the students. Grading In A PBL Environment.
Rethinking Grading In A 21st Century Project-Based Learning Environment by Terry Heick Summary: In Project-Based Learning, achievements can encourage students by clarifying complexity and rewarding nuance in performance Whether a letter or a number, any singular alphanumeric expression meant to evaluate a student’s understanding or academic performance is problematic.
In the last several years, numeric evaluations have replaced letter grades in some districts, where a student might get a 3 out of 4, rather than a B-, but this can be confusing as well. Because the letter grade is such a powerful cultural standard, learners and parents immediately take the given number and calculate a corresponding letter grade so it makes sense to them. Esim. arvioinnista. RubiStar Home. Social Bookmarking and Annotating. The driving force behind the Web 2.0 revolution is a spirit of intellectual philanthropy and collective intelligence that is made possible by new technologies for communication, collaboration and information management.
One of the best examples of collective intelligence in action are the wide range of social bookmarking applications that have been embraced in recent years. Social Bookmarking Overview Designed as information management tools that allow users to categorize web finds through the use of tags---keywords that allow for easy searching and grouping of content---social bookmarking applications take advantage of the wisdom of millions of users to identify resources worth exploring. In their simplest form, social bookmarking applications allow users to organize their own personal bookmarks in an online forum accessible from any computer connected to the internet. In and of itself, that's pretty handy. For example, I'm always highly motivated by Will Richardson. PBL Going Public. One thing that interested me most about project-based learning is the idea of student’s sharing their work with an authentic audience.
Most of the work my students have completed through the years has only been seen by me. In fact, the only reason they bothered to complete it was because I was going to give them a grade. Other people weren’t going to read those research papers or view those book projects. I can think of a few wonderful exceptions like our Wikipedia project at Millington High and the year my eighth graders performed Shakespeare at Harding’s Renaissance Fair but at least 95% of the learning my students have accomplished has never been seen outside my room.
My students created everything during our project-based learning unit with the plan to share it online. PBL Checklist for Teachers. PBL Driving Questions. PBL Brainstorms. I wrote the question on the board.
FreeBIEs apumatskuja. PBL askeleet. One of the take aways from the Curriculum Mapping Institute this past week was that it brought an upgrade to THE trusted KWL (Know, What to Know and Learned) Chart to the forefront.
It seems a no brainer…one of those things… “I should have thought about it”… So what is this upgrade all about? An “H” snuck into the Acronym! What does this “H” stand for”? Why is this an upgrade for the 21st century? I started out by searching Google, which immediately wanted to correct my search term and showed me the traditional “KWL chart” results. The top search results turned out mostly downloadable files for templates, which was quiet interesting as there were several explanations in these tutorials what the “H” could stand for: HOW can we find the answers to these questions? In direct relation to our quest to bring Information literacy in the 21st century to our teachers and students, the “HOW will we find the information” sticks out right away for me.
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Difference Between Projects and PBL. PBL and Languages. Editor's Note: Today's guest blogger is Don Doehla, French teacher and instructional coach at Vintage High School in Napa, California.
Don recently stepped up to become the new facilitator of our World Languages group. He's got some great ideas for teaching world languages, including the use of project-based learning. He shares a few of these tips today. We hope you'll join him in the World Languages group as well. The world may be small and flat, but it is also multilingual, multicultural, and more and more, it is an interconnected world. The Challenges. PBL Our Need to Know. Once the students had selected a topic from our over-arching theme of civil/human rights, and I had a rubric, it was time for the real work to begin. We started our project-based learning by making a list on the board of things we know about the topic followed by a list of things we “need to know.” Basically, we completed the K and W of our KWL chart (PDF). Real world project. In a week from today, I will start my second teaching assignment at Queen’s School of Business: Integrated Marketing Communications.
Hey, I am excited, its going to be a lot of fun! Communications is an interesting course, no doubt, but that’s not the main reason for why I am looking forward to the next couple of weeks and months. The main reason is that I am the only instructor of this course (two sections). In other words: I have all liberties I could ever wish for to experiment with new course formats and teaching styles. In this post I am sharing how I designed the course according to my teaching philosophy, and yes, I offer the syllabus to download, just in case you are inspired. This post is less about the content of what I am teaching and more about how I am teaching. Teaching in the 21st Century Good teaching in the 21st century is not so different from good teaching in the late 18th century.
Humboldt was a German dude Prussian philosopher who lived from 1767 to 1835.