Project-Based Learning Through a Maker's Lens | Edutopia - 5 views
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PBL MakerEd Edutopia Project based learning article #LiquidNetworkSpill
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A Maker is an individual who communicates, collaborates, tinkers, fixes, breaks, rebuilds, and constructs projects for the world around him or her.
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Jim Tiffin Jr on 28 Apr 16A nice list-style definition of a Maker.
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A Maker, re-cast into a classroom, has a name that we all love: a learner.
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A Maker, just like a true learner, values the process of making as much as the product.
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Making, especially to educators and administrators unfamiliar with it, can seem to lack the academic rigor needed for a full-fledged place in an educational ecosystem.
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With practice, the students can frame the questions themselves.
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Once completed, the project becomes less of a daily race to fulfill lesson plans and more of a quest to document your students' growing capabilities.
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This reflective documentation process should be something that both teacher AND student are doing. The student point-of-view should be written for the benefit of the student, not the teacher. The teacher should coach this process for the student so that the monitoring of growth is seen as a value for the student. The teacher documentation should also inform the student as to their growth, but the information can be used for more "teacherly" purposes as well, such preparing for future activities or intentional pairings of students in the early phases of the PBL unit.
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model it yourself first
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The messy, hands-on Maker classroom is perfect for a PBL unit when the teacher is willing to collaborate, tinker, fix, break, and rebuild alongside students. Some fundamental elements to consider in the designing of a maker-centered project, but not as absolutes. It is important to realize that any project taken on in a maker-centered classroom is, by definition, a PBL experience.
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Fabulous piece about the myriad connection among PBL and Maker. And your commentary is so helpful and provocative. Thank you!