designing your own pbl for isacs
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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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