Ten Things I've Learned in Going Project-Based. It's a few days before Christmas and I expect a challenge.
Students will be checked-out or hyper. However, to my surprise, they are fully engaged in a project that combines reading, writing, global awareness and critical thinking. I've mentioned before that this year has been challenging. Blogs as Showcase Portfolios. I am a huge advocate of blogs as ongoing, reflective portfolios of student work.
After using them with students for the last six years in a variety of formats in three different schools, in my opinion, they are the perfect container for sharing, organizing and reflecting on student learning. For starters, they are so amazingly easy to use. I’ve used blogs with students as young as third grade and it really only takes one lesson for them to understand the basics.
Once they get the hang of posting, organizing their work in categories is a breeze and adding links and media are natural next steps. Plus, the inherent organizational structure (categories and tags), if used properly, makes it extremely easy and quick to find anything. In addition to the ease of use, the accessibility of connecting with other learners around the world, since work is online and easy to comment on, makes blogs a straightforward tool for building a global classroom. Showcase Portfolio Include: Using ePortfolios as a reflective teaching tool - Case study. Can Your Daughter Do This? Super-Awesome Sylvia's Super-Simple Arduino. Time to Break the Ice « The Art of Forgetting. Tomorrow is the first day of school.
As Shakespeare has so eloquently put it there will be “the whining schoolboy with his satchel/and shining morning face, creeping like snail/unwillingly to school.” (Not much has changed in 450 years.) I have had a few students and teachers tell me they aren’t ready to go back quite yet. The way I see it you can’t stop the first day from coming so you might as well embrace it. Why English teachers should care about project-based learning: multiliteracies, assessment for learning and digital technologies. There is impetus for pedagogical change in the English classroom.
Bull and Anstey (2010, p.6) observed that, ‘literacy teaching and learning should respond to the rapid changes in literacy arising from increasing globalization, technology and social diversity.’ This transforming social, cultural and technological landscape necessarily brings with it a new set of opportunities and challenges for secondary English teachers. Three such challenges include the purposeful integration of digital technologies into the classroom, the use of assessment for learning practices and the emergence of new literacies. The reshaping of traditional teacher-centred pedagogy to a more student-centred, inquiry-based pedagogy may assist Australian secondary English classroom with meeting these new challenges. One alternative pedagogy that may provide teachers with a scaffold to integrate digital technologies, assessment for learning practices and multiliteracies into the English classroom is PBL.
Pbln.imsa.edu/resources/PBL_Matters.pdf. Don’t do inquiry. Criteria for Effective Assessment in Project-Based Learning. PBL. 10 Things in School That Should Be Obsolete. Flickr: Corey Leopold By Greg Stack So much about how and where kids learn has changed over the years, but the physical structure of schools has not.
Looking around most school facilities — even those that aren’t old and crumbling — it’s obvious that so much of it is obsolete today, and yet still in wide use. 1. COMPUTER LABS. At Northern Beaches Christian School students learn everywhere. Wilderness Survival PBL Trailer. Project Based Learning: Explained. Piano stairs - TheFunTheory.com - Rolighetsteorin.se. Guitar Lesson #1. Help with bowdrill set.
What is PBL? To help teachers do PBL well, we created a comprehensive, research-based model for PBL — a "gold standard" to help teachers, schools, and organizations to measure, calibrate, and improve their practice.
In Gold Standard PBL, projects are focused on student learning goals and include Essential Project Design Elements: Project Based Learning. Inquiry Based Learning. What’s the Best Way to Practice Project Based Learning? By Peter Skillen Project Based Learning can mean different things to different people, and can be practiced in a variety of ways. For educators who want to dive in, the good news is that a rich trove of resources are available.
In order to create your own definition and practice, here are some parameters to consider. This diagram, enhanced by the critical eye of Brenda Sherry, can help you figure out what’s important to you and your students. We like to think with the frame of continua rather than dichotomies simply because things are rarely on or off, black or white, ones or zeroes. Skills for Project Based learning. Minding your Ps for Better DQs. 7th Graders Publish Their Own Textbook. Mac Life wrote an article titled Super 7th Graders Publish Their Own eBook to the iBookstore.
It explains the project in more detail. "Each student has to choose an organisms they wanted to study and were required to submit their topic for approval. Www.inquiryhub.org. Introducing the Inquiry Hub.
What Is PBL Really? Do you want to engage your students in Project Based Learning (PBL)?
Maybe you are asking yourself what is PBL really? Am I doing it right? Well, first of all, the most important thing to understand is that PBL is a construct made up by human beings and so there are lots of variations! Whole-School Project Builds Pride. In rural Howe, Oklahoma, home to about 700 people, the school has long been the heart of the community. Students from pre-K through high school all congregate on the same campus.
Now, thanks to the creative efforts of high school students and their teachers, the campus will be getting a facelift that should make local pride shine even brighter. Project Lion Pride was a schoolwide immersion in project-based learning that engaged every student and teacher at Howe High during 10 weeks this spring. Although most students were new to PBL, they stepped up to the challenge of answering this highly relevant driving question: How can we make our school better? On the line was an offer of $1,000 to implement the top idea presented to a panel of judges. Behind the scenes, the entire staff of 13 teachers invested months of preparation to make the project a success.
Howe Public Schools is already a 1:1 laptop district that integrates technology effectively.