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High Quality, 21st c., PBL:Lessons Learned from Innovative 21st c.
Schools
Jonathan Martin21k12blog.net
Twitter: @[email protected]
1. Professional Collaboration2. Relevant & Interesting Problems3. PBL: Every Student, Every
Subject4. Entry Events: Open Big5. Technology as subordinate
accelerator6. Students as Professionals7. Iteration & Formative Feedback8. Audience Matters9. Rethinking Assessment
High Quality, 21st century PBL (HQ21PBL)
http://howtovideos.hightechhigh.org/video/265/What+Project+Based+Learning+Isn't
A design view of PBL
“a systematic teaching method that engages students in learning essential knowledge and life-enhancing skills through an extended, student-influenced inquiry process that is structured around complex, authentic questions and carefully designed products and tasks”
Mergendoller, et al., 2006
Project-based learning is integral to school’s program
Essential Ed. Elements
1.Hands on projects solving real problems
2.Collaboration: Working in Teams
3.Creating4.Multi-disciplinary
learning5.Design Thinking6.Trial and Error
Reviewing the Research Regarding PBL Efficacy-- several slides borrowed from Jason Ravitz, former Director of Research, BIE, available here: http://www.slideshare.net/biepbl/metasynthesis-3slides
Parker, W., Mosberg, S., Bransford, J., Vye, N., Wilderson, J., & Abbott, R. (2011).
Rethinking advanced high school coursework: Tackling the depth/breadth tension in the AP U.S. Government and Politics course
What do you want for your students?
What is most important for them to learn, practice, and develop?
7 Survival Skills critical thinking & problem solving effective oral & written
communication accessing & analyzing
information -
curiosity and imagination collaboration across networks &
leading by influence -
agility and adaptability initiative and entrepreneurship
What can we learn about PBL from these schools?
Nine Core Component of 21st century PBL Schools
Professional Collaboration
The sooner you start talking to your colleagues about your ideas, the better your project will be. If you don’t want to talk to people at your own school, you can find lots of teachers who are excited about project-based learning by going online.
This means presenting your plans to a group of colleagues, who will give you constructive feedback, come up with ideas that you haven’t thought of, and warn you of potential problems that you may not have anticipated.
Relevant & Interesting Problems
“we need to invert the conventional classroom dynamic: instead of teaching information and content first, and then asking students to answer questions about it second, we should put the question/ problem first,
and then facilitate students with information and guidance as they seek the answer and hold them accountable for the excellence of their solutions and of their presentation of their results”.
What if? At least half of the
time they spend on schoolwork must be on stuff that can’t end up in a folder we put away.
It should be because their work is something they create on their own, or with others, that has real value in the real world.
Default position: Every student, every unit
Entry Events: Open Big
Technology as accelerator
professionalism
Iteration and Formative Feedback
Audience Matters
Rethinking Assessment
Rethinking Assessment
http://www.showevidence.com/products/applications/
Discuss with neighbor: what will you bring to your school to shift it toward these 21st century PBL school elements?
