Project Based Learning Introducing an irresistible project at the beginning of a unit of study can give students a clear and meaningful reason for learning. Plus, they end up with a product or result that could possibility make a difference in the world! In project based learning students are driven to learn content and skills for an authentic purpose. PBL involves students in explaining their answers to real-life questions, problems, or challenges. It starts with a driving question that leads to inquiry and investigation. Students work to create a product or presentation as their response to the driving question. Technology can be helpful throughout a project, whether students use iPads, Chromebooks, Android tablets, laptops, or desktops.
Problem-Based Learning and Project-Based Learning While Project-Based Learning and Problem-Based Learning share much in common, they are two distinct approaches to learning. In Project-Based Learning, students have a great deal of control of the project they will work on and what they will do in the project. The project may or may not address a specific problem. In Problem-Based Learning, a specific problem is specified by the course instructor. Students work individually or in teams over a period of time to develop solutions to this problem. Project-Based Learning Definition: Project-Based Learning is an individual or group activity that goes on over a period of time, resulting in a product, presentation, or performance. Project-Based Learning shares much in common with Process Writing. brainstorming organizing the brainstormed ideas developing a draft obtaining feedback revising, which may involve going bask to earlier steps publishing Here are some general ideas about Project-Based Learning Project-based learning is learner centered.
Project-Based Learning Professional Development Guide An overview of the Edutopia professional development guide for teaching how to use project-based learning in the classroom. Edutopia.org's Project-Based Learning professional development guide can be used for a two- to three-hour session, or expanded for a one- to two-day workshop, and is divided into two parts. Part one is a guided process, designed to give participants a brief introduction to project-based learning (PBL), and answers the questions "Why is PBL important?", "What is PBL about?", and "How does PBL work?" Part two assigns readings and activities for experiential PBL. Students Follow the Butterflies' Migration: Teacher Frances Koontz shows students a symbolic butterfly sent from children in Mexico. The Resources for PBL page includes a PowerPoint presentation (including presenter notes), which can be shown directly from the website or downloaded for use as a stand-alone slide show, and sample session schedules. Continue to the next section of the guide, Why Is PBL Important?
Project-Based Learning: An Overview Student: We would place the dome right here, for instance. Narrator: These sophomore geometry students in Seattle, have a problem. And they're excited about solving it. Eeva: The problem that they have to solve, is how do you design a state of the art high school in the year 2050, on a particular site. Students are in teams of three to four, and they're in a design competition for a contract to build it. Student: Here's the fire eliminator. Narrator: In Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, these fifth graders are designing a tool to put out fires in space. Student: If you turn it on high, it sucks up the fireballs. Narrator: In Newport News, Virginia, these second graders are investigating cystic fibrosis. Student: One of our students has CF, and we're trying to learn about CF, to see what it is, how it works. Narrator: In Hawaii, high school students are building electric cars, and racing them. Student: Yeah, yeah, put something right there. Student: We did a experiment on dead worms.
Tales of Utopia « In the beginning part of the year, I started collaborating with Jeff in Montana on a Gifted and Talented project, where middle school students undertook a unit on Utopia. The study book was Animal Farm. We developed a series of activities to meet the standards, which ultimately had the goal of engaging students in creating their own original short stories that used themes taken from the book and other texts. The project culminated in his students publishing their book online. The stories they created are excellent! I was trapped. Now the book is published, and what would be even more amazing for them, would be to see people actually buy it – outside of their class and parents. You can preview the entire book online; and have a browse though their work. Watching the clock definitely didn’t make school go by any faster, if anything it just dragged it out. So consider buying it – or at least reading a few stories and leaving them a comment. $10.00 off discount code = eduCreateQ31 Like this:
- Over 25 Links Uncovering Project Based Learning Resources On The Web BIE – Also known as the BUCK Institute for Learning. Check out this site for activities, videos, handouts, and research. BIE is the mother lode of PBL and its site is one of the best. You can also contact BIE for professional development needs. Here are some highlights to explore inside this site. BIE Videos - What Is PBL Video – A great collection of videos that demonstrate PBL and its best practices. BIE Tools – PBL Project Search - Here you will find a collection of 450 proven lesson plans to set any PBL desire into action. BIE PBL Research Library - Here you will find a wonderful collection of research summaries, full papers, and presentation materials. BIE PBL Do IT Your-Self Kit – BIE has developed this Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Tutorial based on the PBL Toolkit books and highlights from the popular PBL 101 Workshop. BIE FreeBies – What a wonderful collection of documents perfect for PBL. West Virginia Teach 21 PBL Learning Reviews Edutopia The Rest
Best Practices for Deploying iPads in Schools Digital Tools Teaching Strategies Flickr: Lexie Flickinger By Matt Levinson As schools get ready to deploy iPads this year, each one is scrambling to figure out how to develop an efficient and effective system that works. With no standardized system or uniform roadmap to follow, at the moment, it’s up to individual schools to reach out through their networks to find information about best practices and smooth, streamlined service. Without professional development and a set plan in place, educators in individual classes might be stumped by how to set up iPads for different uses. To that end, here are some ideas about how to put a system in place for iPad use in classrooms:
Utopia Etymology[edit] Varieties[edit] Ecology[edit] Ecological utopian society describes new ways in which society should relate to nature. They react to a perceived widening gap between the modern Western way of living that, allegedly, destroys nature[3] and a more traditional way of living before industrialization, that is regarded by the ecologists to be more in harmony with nature. In the novelette Rumfuddle (1973), Jack Vance presents a novel twist on the ecological utopia. Economics[edit] Politics and history[edit] A global utopia of world peace is often seen as one of the possible end results of world history. The communes of the 1960s in the United States were often an attempt to greatly improve the way humans live together in communities. Intentional communities were organized and built all over the world with the hope of making a more perfect way of living together. Religious utopia[edit] Religious utopias can be intra-religious or inter-religious. Science and technology[edit]