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Google Education Trainer

Project Based Learning Overview Workshop Agenda

BIE 8 Steps of PBL

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Agenda - The Why and What of PBL

The Why and What of PBL

  • 7 Whys of PBL
  • PBL Video
  • The How of PBL
  • Essential Elements of PBL �Essential Project Design Elements Checklist https://goo.gl/veHxkL
  • Project Vs. Project Based Learning
  • Project Planning

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BIE��What is PBL? - Video

What is Project Based learning (PBL)?

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Why - project Based learning?

PBL Helps Students Develop Skills for Living in a �Knowledge-Based, Highly Technological Society

Solving highly complex problems requires that students have both fundamental skills

and 21st century skills:

  • personal and social responsibility
  • planning, critical thinking, reasoning, and creativity
  • strong communication skills, both for interpersonal and presentation needs
  • cross-cultural understanding
  • visualizing and decision making
  • knowing how and when to use technology and choosing the most appropriate tool for the task

http://www.edutopia.org/project-based-learning-guide-importance

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  • PBL and Technology Use Bring a New Relevance to the Learning at Hand
  • PBL Lends Itself to Authentic Assessment
  • PBL Promotes Lifelong Learning
  • PBL Accommodates Students with Varying Learning Styles and Differences
  • PBL Increases Opportunities For Relationship Building and Personalized Learning
  • Research Supports PBL

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why ‘s ….. Continued

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Conventional Vs. Project Based learning

Teacher –centered

Student-centered

Teacher-directed

Self-directed

Listen, memorize, repeat

Discover, apply, present

Independence

Collaboration

Teacher decision-making

Teacher and student decision making

Knowledge of facts, terms, content

21st Century Skills

Direct instruction

Varied instructional strategies

Short, isolated lessons with predetermined answers

Long-term investigations

Standards-based

Standards-based

Assessment tests

Ongoing assessments

School-based

Real-connections

Quizzes and tests

Reflections

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Traditional Unit - PBL Unit

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a project is used at the end of a unit to create a product; i.e. poster or report, to present to the teacher

For Reference: Doing a Project vs. Project Based Learning (by Amy Mayer - http://www.friedtechnology.com/)

students construct knowledge / project work is accomplished throughout the unit with benchmarks, a presentation to a global audience, and a reflection on learning.

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What Project Based Learning IS Not

Remember… this is not simply doing a project or culminating activity that demonstrates what students learned from teacher- directed lessons or lectures.�

Watch and reflect…

http://howtovideos.hightechhigh.org/video/265/What+Project+Based+Learning+Isn

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTr3XfvrL3Y

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BIE - mODELS

Learn about the new model here

8 Elements

Learn more 8 BIE Steps PBL

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Now what? �Developing an Idea and Driving Question(s)

Begin with the end in mind

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Developing a Project Idea

  • Summary of the issue, challenge, investigation, scenario, or problem
  • Student-driven
  • Project resources, Planning Forms
  • Entry Event
  • Start with a SMALL project

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Developing a Project Idea

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Characteristics of a Driving Question

  • Provocative or challenging to students, because it is relevant, important, urgent or otherwise interesting.
  • Open-ended and/or complex; there is no single “right answer,” or at least no simple “yes” or “no” answer. It requires in-depth inquiry and higher-level thinking. Requires action!
  • Linked to the core of what you want students to learn; to answer it well, students would need to gain the knowledge and skills you have targeted as goals for the project.

Generate Driving Question (S)

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  • Why do people revolt?
  • How do humans compete in an ecosystem?
  • Will global warming affect our community?
  • What does an in-depth study of a pond tell us about an ocean?
  • How can we educate students so that the amount of trash decreases and recycling is increased at our school?
  • How can individuals make a difference in the world?

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BIE - Driving Questions (DQ / Essential Questions)

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Driving Questions (DQ’s)

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PBL - How do I know if I am doing it Right? Examples

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PBL Example: �8th grade Social Studies project

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Other examples:

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Health Example: how to do push ups��Music Example: composers�

Math Example: fractions�

Science Example: cell structure �

History Example: Brown vs. Board of Education

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How Do I know if I am doing it right?

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To learn more about Project Based Learning

  • Follow Buck Inst. for Ed ‏@BIEpbl
  • #PBL
  • #PROJECTBASEDLEARNING

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Twitter and PBL

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