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Nathan Gingras

How to Reinvent Project Based Learning to Be More Meaningful | MindShift - 1 views

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Projectbasedlearning Change-Project EDCI325 Common core pbl 21st century learning inquiry process

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  • If PBL is to become a powerful, accepted model of instruction in the future, a vocabulary change may be in order — preferably to the term project based inquiry.
  • 1. Put PBL on a continuum of inquiry.
  • 2. Blend surface knowledge and deeper learning.
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  • 3. Start with a sophisticated student-centered culture.
  • 4. Make collaboration as powerful in school as it is in life.
  • 5. Understand that PBL cannot be done alone.
Nathan Gingras

Why PBL? | Project Based Learning | BIE - 2 views

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pbl Projectbasedlearning EDCI325 Change-Project

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  • In the 21st century workplace, success requires more than basic knowledge and skills. In PBL, students not only understand content more deeply but also learn how to take responsibility and build confidence, solve problems, work collaboratively, communicate ideas, and be creative innovators.
  • The Common Core and other present-day standards emphasize real-world application of knowledge and skills, and the development of the 21st century competencies such as critical thinking, communication in a variety of media, and collaboration. PBL provides an effective way to address such standards.
  • Modern technology – which students use so much in their lives – is a perfect fit with PBL. With technology, teachers and students can connect with experts, partners, and audiences around the world, and use tech tools to find resources and information, create products, and collaborate more effectively.
  • Nathan Gingras on 12 Jul 14
     
    "In the 21st century workplace, success requires more than basic knowledge and skills. In PBL, students not only understand content more deeply but also learn how to take responsibility and build confidence, solve problems, work collaboratively, communicate ideas, and be creative innovators."
Nathan Gingras

The Role of PBL in Making the Shift to Common Core | Edutopia - 1 views

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Projectbasedlearning Change-Project EDCI325 Common core pbl

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  • Big Idea #1: I am a designer.
  • Big Idea #2: I facilitate inquiry.
  • Big Idea #3: I set students up to dig deep, search for meaning, and craft reasoned arguments.
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  • Big Idea #4: I create conditions in which students can learn how to persevere.
  • Big Idea #5: I integrate content and create relevance.
  • Big Idea #6: I facilitate meaningful conversations.
Nathan Gingras

Educational Leadership:Giving Students Meaningful Work:Seven Essentials for Project-Bas... - 1 views

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pbl Projectbasedlearning EDCI325 Change-Project

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  • A project is meaningful if it fulfills two criteria. First, students must perceive the work as personally meaningful, as a task that matters and that they want to do well. Second, a meaningful project fulfills an educational purpose. Well-designed and well-implemented project-based learning is meaningful in both ways.
  • Teachers can powerfully activate students' need to know content by launching a project with an "entry event" that engages interest and initiates questioning. An entry event can be almost anything: a video, a lively discussion, a guest speaker, a field trip, or a piece of mock correspondence that sets up a scenario.
  • A good driving question captures the heart of the project in clear, compelling language, which gives students a sense of purpose and challenge.
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  • In terms of making a project feel meaningful to students, the more voice and choice, the better.
  • A project should give students opportunities to build such 21st century skills as collaboration, communication, critical thinking, and the use of technology, which will serve them well in the workplace and life. This exposure to authentic skills meets the second criterion for meaningful work—an important purpose. A teacher in a project-based learning environment explicitly teaches and assesses these skills and provides frequent opportunities for students to assess themselves.
  • Formalizing a process for feedback and revision during a project makes learning meaningful because it emphasizes that creating high-quality products and performances is an important purpose of the endeavor. Students need to learn that most people's first attempts don't result in high quality and that revision is a frequent feature of real-world work.
  • In addition to providing direct feedback, the teacher should coach students in using rubrics or other sets of criteria to critique one another's work. Teachers can arrange for experts or adult mentors to provide feedback, which is especially meaningful to students because of the source.
  • When students present their work to a real audience, they care more about its quality. Once again, it's "the more, the better" when it comes to authenticity. Students might replicate the kinds of tasks done by professionals—but even better, they might create real products that people outside school use.
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