Reinventing Project Based Learning

Designing and implementing

real-world projects for

digital-age learners

Introductions

• Your host MCIU

• Instructor Jane Krauss

• Districts, schools, individuals…survey indicates• Lots of talent in the room• Diversity

– Interests– Experiences– Job roles

• Mrs. Grable’s Bag - get acquainted

Goals

• Explore project-based learning• Use technology that supports your work• Learn new tools: lightning demos• Design project frameworkAfterward….

• Continue • CollaborateAll along the way….

• Keep a captain’s log (blog!)

Agenda

9:00 Today’s tools, tenets of PBL

10:00 New professional learning, visit Qatar, quick tour of PBL

11:00 Lightning demos – digital tools deliver essential learning

functions

12:00 Lunch

1:00 Overview of instructional design and assessment

Group work – Moving from Think to Thing

2:00 Project management: grouping, schedules, involving others,

facilitation

Check in, continue group work

3:00 Presentations

3:30 Adjourn

Today’s Tools

• Reinventing PBL Ning http://reinventingpbl.ning.com

• Reinventing PBL Wikihttp://reinventingpbl.pbwiki.com

Self-identify - need help? can help?

Projects in Real Life

Forget about kids… forget about work…

Reflect on a recent project of your own

1. What was your motivation?

2. What did the project call for? What allowed you to go from think to thing?

http://www.bubbl.us

So… Why Projects + Tech?

Kids are ready

Knowledge economy demands it

Global citizenship necessitates it

We need to prepare kids for a future we can’t imagine(It’s really fun)

Back at SchoolCompare Two Approaches

Traditional research assignment: Study a major figure of the Renaissance period. Create a digital slideshow that informs others about this person’s most significant accomplishments. Demonstrate clear organization and cite all sources.

Reinvented project: Mingling at the Renaissance Ball Study several notable individuals in a shared field (art, science, architecture, philosophy, music, literature) during the Renaissance period. Develop a defensible set of criteria for an award in this field, and identify the individual most deserving. Design a badge that signifies the meaning of the award and be ready to present it during a public event.

Effective Projects

• Probe matters of importance• Mirror authentic work of professional disciplines• Are designed for “optimal ambiguity” allowing

multiple points of entry, directions for learning, and outcomes

• Develop knowledge, skills and dispositions• Go beyond understanding and studying to some

kind of action or resolve • Are right-sized

Knowledge

Revision by A.

Churches,

Tech Learning

April 1, 2008

Bloom’s

Digital

Taxonomy

Knowledge

Revision by A.

Churches,

Tech Learning

April 1, 2008

Bloom’s

Digital

Taxonomy

Skills

Beyond discrete skills to extensible capabilities

New literacies• ISTE, NCTE, AASL, Partnership for 21st. C

Schools, enGuage

1998

1. Basic Operations and

Concepts

2. Social, Ethical, and Human

Issues

3. Technology Productivity Tools

4. Technology Communications

Tools

5. Technology Research Tools

6. Technology Problem-solving

and Decision- making tools

2007

1. Creativity and Innovation

2. Communication and

Collaboration

3. Research and Information

Fluency

4. Critical Thinking, Problem

Solving and Decision-making

5. Digital Citizenship

6. Technology Operations and

Concepts

ISTE NETS*S (r)

Partnership for 21st. C Schools

Dispositions

• Important traits, attitudes, habits, and feelings: confidence, curiosity, resourcefulness, cooperation, motivation, persistence, courage, pride, togetherness

• Acquired through experiences, fostered in projects

• Talk about dispositions directly with students, help students begin to recognize how they learn, to reflect on processes and become more sophisticated learners

Technology…

Best uses

• Transformative • Makes processes transparent • Mirrors our children’s world

Essential Learning Functions of digital tools

Doc as handout and on the wiki

http://reinventingpbl.pbwiki.com/MCIU+Workshop

PBL Conceptual Framework

Gets at essentialsNot overbuilt, just conceptualized

See: Build a Conceptual Framework doc on the wiki http://reinventingpbl.pbwiki.com/MCIU+Workshop

Life-Long, Life-Wide, Life-Deep

The LIFE Center (The Learning in Informal and Formal Environments Center), University of Washington,

Stanford University, and SRI International

Where learning occurs during waking hours over the course of one’s life

Bransford, et al 2007

Professional Learning

The new For-Us By-Us PD, supported by technology

Educators are expecting more-- and they should!

•Seek personalized learning experiences •Vote with their feet•Learn anytime, many channels•Form communities, social networks•Give and get through peer-to-peer learning•Reflective•Learning mirrors experiences of millenials

Meet a collaborating teacher

Julie Lindsay, Qatar

Your PLC

Professional learning networks - Why helpful for pbl?

Local?

Distributed?

Virtual?

Fantasy?

Where good projects come from

Joined

Adopted

Remodeled

Created

Cruise the Wiki Tour of Projects

PBL Assessment

Multiple Measures •Formative: Observe, read reflections, interview•Summative: Assess performance, final product, unique task, portfolio, essay exam

Create rubrics, checklists used to:•Measure subject matter mastery, skills, dispositions, •Lay out expectations

Kids evaluate kids

BACKUP SLIDES

PBL Instructional Design

Essential or driving questions

Backward design process

Understanding by DesignBuck Institute

Technology?

Getting Ready to Launch

Schedules and calendarGroupingCommunicationsFacilitating learning