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Title: Project Based Learning


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Project Based Learning
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Life Is Project Based Learning
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But where is the disconnect between life and
school?
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PBL is NOT New
CARL ROGERS 1902 - 1987
JOHN DEWEY 1859-1952
LEV VYGOTSKY 1896-1934
SOCRATES 470-399 B.C.
JEAN PIAGET 1896-1980
JEROME BRUNER 1915-CURRENT
BENJAMIN BLOOM 1913-1999
SEYMOUR PAPART
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Learning an active process in which students
construct new ideas or concepts based on their
current knowledge.
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  • PBL
  • engages students
  • provides an environment for the acquisition of
    skills needed in higher education workplace.
  • teaches curricular content
  • Builds 21st Century Skills

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Seven Elements of Project-Based Learning
  • Standards Based
  • Assessment
  • Student Centered
  • Collaboration
  • Real World Connection
  • Extended Time Frame
  • Multimedia

Challenge 2000 Multimedia Project http//pblmm.k1
2.ca.us
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Six As of Project Based Learning
  • Authenticity
  • Academic Rigor
  • Applied Learning
  • Academic Exploration
  • Adult Connection
  • Assessment Practices

From Buck Institute Web site http//www.bie.org
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Another Way to Look at What is PBL
  • Content
  • Conditions
  • Activities
  • Results

Buck Institute for Education http//www.bie.org/p
bl/pbloverview/definition.php
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Content
  • Compelling ideas
  • Problems presented in their full complexity
  • Students finding interdisciplinary connections
    between ideas
  • Students struggling with ambiguity, complexity,
    and unpredictability
  • Real-world questions that students care about

Buck Institute for Education http//www.bie.org/p
bl/pbloverview/definition.php
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Conditions
  • Support student autonomy
  • Students community of inquiry
  • Coursework in a social context
  • Students exhibit task- and time-management
    behaviors
  • Students direct their own work learning
  • Students simulate the professional work

Buck Institute for Education http//www.bie.org/p
bl/pbloverview/definition.php
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Activities
  • Investigative and engaging
  • Students multi-faceted investigations over long
    periods of time
  • Students encountering obstacles, seeking
    resources, and solving problems
  • Students making their own connections among ideas
    and acquiring new skills
  • Students using authentic tools
  • Students getting feedback from expert sources and
    realistic assessment

Buck Institute for Education http//www.bie.org/p
bl/pbloverview/definition.php
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Results
  • Real-world outcomes
  • Students generating complex intellectual products
    to demonstrate learning
  • Students participate in assessment
  • Students held accountable for competence
  • Students exhibiting growth in real-world
    competence

Buck Institute for Education http//www.bie.org/p
bl/pbloverview/definition.php
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How Do I Begin?
  • Planning
  • Begin with an Essential Question
  • What is important to your students
  • What is the deep learning--the enduring
    understanding
  • What are the necessary skills
  • Standards
  • Prerequisite knowledge (prior knowledge)
  • Prerequisite skills
  • Skills and knowledge to to be embedded into the
    project

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Engage Students
in problem solving in higher order thinking
skills in critical thinking
to solve real problems for a real audience
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Traditional Instruction Emphasizes
Project Based Learning Emphasizes
  • Focus of curriculum
  • Content coverage
  • Knowledge of facts
  • Learning "building-block" skills in isolation
  • of complex problem-solving skills
  • Focus of curriculum
  • Depth of understanding
  • Comprehension of concepts and principles
  • Development

Buck Institute for Education http//www.bie.org/p
bl/pbloverview/definition.php
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Traditional Instruction Emphasizes
Project Based Learning Emphasizes
  • Scope and sequence
  • Follows student interest
  • Large units composed of complex problems or
    issues
  • Broad, interdisciplinary focus
  • Scope and sequence
  • Follows fixed curriculum
  • Proceeds block by block, unit by unit
  • Narrow, discipline-based focus

Buck Institute for Education http//www.bie.org/p
bl/pbloverview/definition.php
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Traditional Instruction Emphasizes
Project Based Learning Emphasizes
  • Teaching role
  • Follows student interest
  • Large units composed of complex problems or
    issues
  • Broad, interdisciplinary focus
  • Teaching role
  • Follows fixed curriculum
  • Proceeds block by block, unit by unit
  • Narrow, discipline-based focus

Buck Institute for Education http//www.bie.org/p
bl/pbloverview/definition.php
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Traditional Instruction Emphasizes
Project Based Learning Emphasizes
  • Focus of assessment
  • Process and products
  • Tangible accomplishments
  • Criterion performances and gains over time
  • Demonstration of understanding
  • Focus of assessment
  • Products
  • Test scores
  • Comparisons with others
  • Reproduction of information

Buck Institute for Education http//www.bie.org/p
bl/pbloverview/definition.php
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Traditional Instruction Emphasizes
Project Based Learning Emphasizes
  • Materials of instruction
  • Direct or original sources printed materials,
    interviews, documents, and others
  • Data and materials developed by students
  • Materials of instruction
  • Texts, lectures and presentations
  • Teacher-developed exercise sheets and activities

Buck Institute for Education http//www.bie.org/p
bl/pbloverview/definition.php
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Traditional Instruction Emphasizes
Project Based Learning Emphasizes
  • Use of technology
  • Central, integral
  • Directed by students
  • Useful for enhancing student presentations or
    amplifying student capabilities
  • Use of technology
  • Ancillary, peripheral
  • Administered by teachers
  • Useful for enhancing teachers' presentations

Buck Institute for Education http//www.bie.org/p
bl/pbloverview/definition.php
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Traditional Instruction Emphasizes
Project Based Learning Emphasizes
  • Classroom context
  • Students working alone
  • Students competing with one another
  • Students receiving information from an instructor
  • Classroom context
  • Students working in groups
  • Students collaborating with one another
  • Students constructing, contributing, and
    synthesizing information

Buck Institute for Education http//www.bie.org/p
bl/pbloverview/definition.php
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Traditional Instruction Emphasizes
Project Based Learning Emphasizes
  • Student role
  • Carry out self- directed learning activities
  • Discoverer, integrator, and presenter of ideas
  • Students define their own tasks and work
    independently for large blocks of time
  • Communicate, show affect, produce, take
    responsibility
  • Student role
  • Carry out instructions
  • Memorizer and repeater of facts
  • Students receive and complete brief tasks
  • Listen, behave, speak only when spoken to

Buck Institute for Education http//www.bie.org/p
bl/pbloverview/definition.php
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Traditional Instruction Emphasizes
Project Based Learning Emphasizes
  • Short-term goals
  • Understanding and application of complex ideas
    and processes
  • Mastery of integrated skills
  • Short-term goals
  • Knowledge of facts, terms, content
  • Mastery of isolated skills

Buck Institute for Education http//www.bie.org/p
bl/pbloverview/definition.php
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Traditional Instruction Emphasizes
Project Based Learning Emphasizes
  • Long-range goals
  • Depth of knowledge
  • Graduates who have the dispositions and skills to
    engage in sustained, autonomous, lifelong learning
  • Long-range goals
  • Breadth of knowledge
  • Graduates who have the knowledge to perform
    successfully on standard achievement tests

Buck Institute for Education http//www.bie.org/p
bl/pbloverview/definition.php
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