designing your own pbl for isacs

Designing Your Own PBL unit

Jonathan E. MartinISACS November 8, 2012

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Critique

Web Literacies & Digital Citizenship

Excellent Assessment Real-World Relevance

Collaborative Project Design

Scaffolding & Teaching as necessary

High Tech High: What PBL is:http://howtovideos.hightechhigh.org/video/293/What+is+PBL

What PBL isn’t: http://howtovideos.hightechhigh.org/video/265/What+Project+Based+Learning+Isn't

Note: All BIE related materials come from their publicly available materials.

Designing the Project

What do you want them to learn?

Decide your project.

How do you find project ideas?

How do you find project ideas?

Project Search @bie.org

What is your project idea?

Culminating Product: What will your students make, produce,

present, share?

videoAnatomy of a project, focus on product:

http://www.edutopia.org/stw-maine-project-based-learning-bacteria-video

AP Gov’t Wiki

What is your DQ? 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.

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.

VideoCraft the Driving Question

http://www.bie.org/videos/video/the_gender_project_craft_the_driving_question

Compose your DQ. Reminders:

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.

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.

Video– entry activity

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ODRM_12bMI

Plan your entry event

Significant ContentWhat do they need to know to do the culminating product?

How will you scaffold and ensure (teach) that learning?

VideoWings– manage the process

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBWd8JMwmRU

Organizing GroupsP R O J E C T M A N A G E M E N T L O G : G R O U P

T A S K S

Project Name:   

Members of Group:

Task Who Is Responsible

DueDate

Status Done

Group contractP R O J E C T G R O U P C O N T R A C T

Project Name:  

Members of Group: 

Our AgreementN We all promise to listen to each other’s ideas with respect.N We all promise to do our assigned work to the best of our ability.N We all promise to turn in our work on or before due dates.N We all promise to ask for help if we need it.N We all promise to share responsibility for our success and for our mistakes.N We all promise to turn in work that is our own.

How will you organize groups?

videoPlan the assessment. http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WftJ1rGsJi0

Assessment Rubrics

What is your assessment plan?

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