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Conflict ResolutionProject Based Learning for Global Education
Big Idea
CONFLICT
Essential Question
What are the factors that contribute to conflict?
Challenge
Improve conflict resolution at your school
Sources of InspirationChallenge-Based Learning
Axis of Hope
Challenge 20/20
MUN
Apple challenge-based Learning Environments
Students will know...The historical context of current global conflicts
The opposing arguments of current global conflicts
Conflict Resolution Strategies
Sources of biased information and their origins
Students will be able to...Collaborate with a group of peers
Identify bias
Articulate opposing arguments
Utilize conflict resolution strategies to define common agreements
Tech skills
Stage 1: Introduction
Introduction
Avatar and My Cultural History (Google Site)
Students respond and share recorded videos: How has conflict impacted my life?
Stage 2:Global
Research and Interviews
Why do conflicts develop?
How are people, politics, and nations affected by conflicts?
Guiding Questions:
Teacher directed resources and activities
Engagement, background knowledge, understanding
Exposure to Global Conflict
Research
Authentic Interviews (teacher supported)
Share via the project google site.
Explore a Global Conflict
Skills Needed
developing interview questions
professionalism and bias
organization and time management
tech skills for website
Sharing and Making Connections
Student comments on google sites page
Student Reflection in a Blog Postmake connections among different conflicts
conflict resolution strategies
Stage 3:Role Play
Case Studies
Stage 4: Local
Challenge
Improve conflict resolution in your community
FormatStudents working in groups
Cooperative Group Contract
Individual Daily Journal - Accountability
Product: Solution Video and Reflection
Audience: Cooperating Class, School Community
ProcessIdentify local conflicts
Guiding Questions, Research
Guiding Activities
Identify a Solution
Implementation
Publishing results and reflection
Guiding QuestionsArmed with the big idea, the essential question, and the challenge, students can now generate their own guiding questions to identify the knowledge they will need to understand to develop a solution to the challenge.
Students conduct thorough and thoughtful research as this sets the foundation for determining an suitable solution.
Guiding ActivitiesLocal research to discover the particular issues, advantages, disadvantages, needs, and aspects of their community connected to the topic.
Conduct surveys and opinion polls that can be used to gather information from the stakeholders.
Expand their scope to include interviews or interactions with experts from around the world. Teacher supported.
Identify a Solution
Each group selects a single solution to develop and implement: action steps, needed materials and where they will obtain them, responsibilities for each group member, any relevant timing considerations, documentation, appropriate audience, how success will be measured, and so on.
All of these decisions are organized into a work plan.
ImplementationAfter identifying their solutions, the students will implement them, measure outcomes, reflect on what worked and what didn’t, and determine whether they made progress in addressing the challenge. When implementation is complete, students share their work with the rest of the world.
Publishing Results and ReflectionsStudents build their solution video and record their reflections. The three-to-five minute solution video should include a description of the challenge, a brief description of the learning process, the solution, and the results of the implementation.
Students keep individual written, audio, or video journals throughout the process.
As a culminating event, students can be provided a series of prompts for final reflections about what they learned about the subject matter and the process.