Conflict ResolutionProject Based Learning for Global Education

Big Idea

CONFLICT

Essential Question

What are the factors that contribute to conflict?

Challenge

Improve conflict resolution at your school

Sources of InspirationChallenge-Based Learning

Axis of Hope

Challenge 20/20

MUN

Apple challenge-based Learning Environments

Students will know...The historical context of current global conflicts

The opposing arguments of current global conflicts

Conflict Resolution Strategies

Sources of biased information and their origins

Students will be able to...Collaborate with a group of peers

Identify bias

Articulate opposing arguments

Utilize conflict resolution strategies to define common agreements

Tech skills

Stage 1: Introduction

Introduction

Avatar and My Cultural History (Google Site)

Students respond and share recorded videos: How has conflict impacted my life?

Stage 2:Global

Research and Interviews

Why do conflicts develop?

How are people, politics, and nations affected by conflicts?

Guiding Questions:

Teacher directed resources and activities

Engagement, background knowledge, understanding

Exposure to Global Conflict

Research

Authentic Interviews (teacher supported)

Share via the project google site.

Explore a Global Conflict

Skills Needed

developing interview questions

professionalism and bias

organization and time management

tech skills for website

Sharing and Making Connections

Student comments on google sites page

Student Reflection in a Blog Postmake connections among different conflicts

conflict resolution strategies

Stage 3:Role Play

Case Studies

Stage 4: Local

Challenge

Improve conflict resolution in your community

FormatStudents working in groups

Cooperative Group Contract

Individual Daily Journal - Accountability

Product: Solution Video and Reflection

Audience: Cooperating Class, School Community

ProcessIdentify local conflicts

Guiding Questions, Research

Guiding Activities

Identify a Solution

Implementation

Publishing results and reflection

Guiding QuestionsArmed with the big idea, the essential question, and the challenge, students can now generate their own guiding questions to identify the knowledge they will need to understand to develop a solution to the challenge.

Students conduct thorough and thoughtful research as this sets the foundation for determining an suitable solution.

Guiding ActivitiesLocal research to discover the particular issues, advantages, disadvantages, needs, and aspects of their community connected to the topic.

Conduct surveys and opinion polls that can be used to gather information from the stakeholders.

Expand their scope to include interviews or interactions with experts from around the world. Teacher supported.

Identify a Solution

Each group selects a single solution to develop and implement: action steps, needed materials and where they will obtain them, responsibilities for each group member, any relevant timing considerations, documentation, appropriate audience, how success will be measured, and so on.

All of these decisions are organized into a work plan.

ImplementationAfter identifying their solutions, the students will implement them, measure outcomes, reflect on what worked and what didn’t, and determine whether they made progress in addressing the challenge. When implementation is complete, students share their work with the rest of the world.

Publishing Results and ReflectionsStudents build their solution video and record their reflections. The three-to-five minute solution video should include a description of the challenge, a brief description of the learning process, the solution, and the results of the implementation.

Students keep individual written, audio, or video journals throughout the process.

As a culminating event, students can be provided a series of prompts for final reflections about what they learned about the subject matter and the process.