PROJECT BASED LEARNING

methodologies

· Guide on the side

    no longer sage on the stage

· More coaching and modeling

    less telling

· More finding out with students

    less being the expert

· More cross disciplinary thinking

     less specialization

· More performance-based assessment

    less knowledge-based assessment

the students move

from following orders

       . .To carrying out self-directed learning activities

from memorizing and repeating

       . .To discovering, integrating and presenting

from listening and reacting

       . .To communicating and taking responsibility

from knowledge of  facts, terms and content

       . .To understanding processes

from theory

      . . To application of theory

 from teacher dependent

      . .To empowered

Develops real world skills

lmany of the skills are those desired by today's employer such as:

lthe ability to work well with others

lmake thoughtful decisions

ltake initiative

lsolve complex problems allows for a variety of accessible for all learners

Emphasizes learning activities

lstudent centerd

lThey become the problem solver, decisions maker, investigator, documentarian

lThey take on the role of those working in a particular discipline

llong-term

lProjects can be a variety of lengths

lWhat they are not is one-day teacher centered lessons

lintegrated with real world issues and practices and have compelling questions

lSignificance beyond the classroom walls

Characteristics of pbl

•  Organizes standards-based curriculum around a meaningful open-ended problem or project with more than one approach or  answer
•  Encourages active inquiry and higher order thinking skills
•  Engage students as stakeholder
•  Creates a learning environment where teacher  coach, guide inquiry and facilitate deeper levels of understanding
•  Concludes with realistic products 

Let's Differeciate!!

Which is better?

• A classroom where the students sit quietly in neatly ordered rows of desk, taking notes as their teacher lectures from the front  of the room. Students talk is limited to response to the teacher’s  question and question’s that require a right answer. They just sit, listen and receive information

or

•  A classroom where the students sit in desk . They work together cooperatively. The students work excitedly because they could share their ideas about the lesson guided by the internet. These active participant talk, share, collaborate and construct meaning. 

The difference in these two classroom are striking. The first employs the traditional model or the lecture based model while the second uses a project based approach to learning that integrates  technology

Teaching Creativity Through Projects Posted by Darrel Pigao........... 21st century skills, Edtech, educational technology, integration, podcasting, school technology

Today I would like to focus my blog post on what I believe is the best what to teach 21st Century Skills and school technology to our students — projects.

The school I taught at before coming to my current school was a PBL or Project-Based Learning school. This meant that most of the concepts and skills that were being taught to students were part of a larger projects — students love to learn this way. Although most schools really do work this way, this school had made it part of it’s formal identity. Just to be clear, my current school teaches a lot through projects as well.

Here is a rough idea at how project-based learning works…

Step One: Define — give your students a real-world problem or process and ask them to make things better, easier, faster, cheaper, more effective or more enjoyable. This is usually done through a question. For example, in fifth grade this coming year my question might be: “If you lived during the Renaissance, what would you have done to get your work noticed? So that people would be talking about your work hundreds of years later.”

Step Two: Plan — students need to take time to understand information about the subject, through study and research students can use school technology to be better equipped to answer the above question.

Step Three: Do — using different techniques students then do the project, in the case of the Renaissance question, I will ask my students to produce a podcast.

Step Four: Review — student finish the project by reviewing each others work and by posting their projects online for the world to see.

If has been my experience that project-based learning can be one of the best ways to teach 21st Century Skills and technology to our students. Rather than just teaching them a random skill like how to edit audio — just make learning the skill part of a much larger project.

chona manuel

Project-based Learning
 
A WebQuest for Educators

project-based learning posted by darrel

Students working together on a challenging project.