Sue Boudreau For OUSD Professional Development Day August 22nd, 2011, Del Rey, rm.16

Expanding Project-Based Learning

EXPANDING PROJECT BASED LEARNING: TODAY’S WORKSHOP PLAN

1.  Introductions 2.  Today’s goals. 3.  Our summer projects -> teaching insights. 4.  Which project ideas will work for students?

Evaluate ideas. 5.  What makes a compelling question to drive

student projects? 6.  Framing a driving question with the ‘Tubric’ 7.  Generate ‘Driving Question’ ideas. 8.  PBL resources. 9.  Organizing tool for PBL resources. 10.  Share PBL DQ ideas. 11.  Next steps.

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EXPANDING PBL: 1.INTRODUCTIONS

 Share grade level/subject/site.  Briefly describe your PBL experience so far.

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EXPANDING PBL: 2. GOALS FOR TODAY

 Why pbl? The playfulness, motivational and STAR power of projects integrated throughout the curriculum. 21st C skills and preparation for life.

 Expand our view of pbl by sharing, exploring what’s out there and how to evaluate it.

 Apply today’s learning and tools to expand and improve our projects in our classrooms.

 Start an OUSD (online) community of PBL practitioners.

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EXPANDING PBL: 3. “MY SUMMER PROJECT”

 Briefly describe your project.  What can you apply to designing projects for

students? Insights, attitudes, what made it a meaningful experience etc.

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MY PROJECTS THIS SUMMER: BRING UP CHILD. MAKE JAM.

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EXPANDING PBL:

4. WHICH PROJECT IDEA COULD WORK FOR STUDENTS? WHY/WHY NOT?

  Can you teach your pet a new trick?

  Clouds

  How far can you fling a piece of paper?

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EXPANDING PBL: 5A. WHAT MAKES A COMPELLING QUESTION TO DRIVE STUDENT PROJECTS?

 Share out ideas:

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EXPANDING PBL: 5B. THE ‘SWEET SPOT’ FOR COMPELLING PBL

  Includes ‘Big Ideas’ in the content concepts and stds.

 Students feel it’s a real problem for them, Orinda or the world.

 Fun, playful stuff.   21st C skills

National Ed Tech Stds for Students and 21st C Skills

  Imaginative, creative, an indefinable ‘wow’ factor.

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skills

Interests/fun Issues

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EXPANDING PBL: 5C. THE JOURNEY METAPHOR

 A great destination that students might help select (product, service, purpose).

  In good company.  Enough time for course re-calculations.  Packing needs you to have an idea of where you are

going.  Not too prescribed or you lose the adventure and fun.  But clear enough that you don’t get dangerously lost.

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EXPANDING PBL: 7. GENERATE/FIND DRIVING QUESTIONS

 Brainstorm anything. No judgment.  Then evaluate pros and cons.

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EXPANDING PBL 8. PBL RESOURCES (ON MY DELICIOUS LINKS)

  Play Interrobang at http://playinterrobang.com/   Global SchoolNet – clearinghouse for collaborative

projects globally.   Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science

Education (CIESE, www.k12science.org)   Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the

Environment (GLOBE, www.globe.gov)   Web-based Inquiry Science Environment (WISE,

http://wise.berkeley.edu/welcome.php)   “Reinventing Project-Based Learning – Your Field

Guide to Real-World Projects in the Digital Age” by Suzie Boss and Jane Krauss, 2007 publ. ISTE

  Online PBL communities through Edutopia and Classroom 2.0

  More about driving questions inc. video clip at The Buck Institute for 21st C PBL

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EXPANDING PBL: 9. ORGANIZE PBL IDEAS, EXAMPLES, SUPPORT.  Set up a www.delicious.com account to bookmark

the sites/blogs you like.  Add all of us to your ‘network’ in ‘settings’. so we

can easily share our links.  See my links at sueboudreau in delicious under

tab pbl

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EXPANDING PBL: 10. SHARE COMPELLING PBL IDEAS.

 For each, say why you love it and what some challenges might be.

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EXPANDING PBL: 11. NEXT STEPS TO EXPAND PBL TOGETHER

 What is your ‘take away’ from today? Share out.  Use the skills, understandings and ideas from

today to expand and improve project-based learning in our class rooms.

 Consider joining a PBL community either within OUSD and/or online. See blogs inc. mine at http://takeactioncurriculum.wordpress.com

 Share changes you made and reflections through e mails/comments on the blog or maybe through café get-togethers…

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