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Project Based Learning Demystified
The document outlines the importance of project-based learning (PBL) for students to develop essential global competencies such as collaboration, critical thinking, communication, and creativity. It provides guidance for educators on how to implement PBL effectively, including creating driving questions, engaging students, and assessing project outcomes. Resources and examples are offered to support educators in getting started with PBL and ensuring meaningful student learning experiences.
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Project Based Learning Demystified
- 1. Project-Based Learning http://bit.ly/PBLdemystified www.openingpaths.org Demystified John McCarthy, Ed.S. Opening Paths openingpaths.org/blog Twitter @Jmccarthyeds jmccarthy@openingpaths.org 734-3301421
- 2. http://Tagboard.com/OPATHS A Twitteror Google+ Account will be needed. Please create one at either: • http: www.twitter.com • https://plus.google.com www.openingpaths.org #OPATHS
- 3. www.openingpaths.org Entry Event Dear Educators, We students need your help. Traditional jobs are scarce. Newly created jobs require global competencies—collaboration, critical thinking, communication, and creativity. Help us become experts in these 4Cs so that we can succeed in any post-secondary pathway. How can project based learning units help us succeed over other students? Please find a project for us. You’re our best hope! Sincerely, Your Future Students
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- 5. Our path… www.openingpaths.org • What is PBL and Why do it? • How can I get started? • Reflect on my next steps…
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- 7. Getting from hereto there www.openingpaths.org Output Worker Initiator Collaborator Communicator Leader Creator Empathizer Analyzer Problem solver Output Process
- 8. www.openingpaths.org Worker Initiator Collaborator Communicator Leader Creator Empathizer Analyzer Problem solver ? =
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- 13. What to watchfor… • What do you see as examples of good practice? • What questions do you have from the examples shown? Youtube PBL Playlist: http://bit.ly/PBLinactionvids www.openingpaths.org
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- 17. www.openingpaths.org Driving Question Or Challenge
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- 23. www.openingpaths.org Look for… • What do you see as examples of the PBL elements? • What questions do you have from the PBL shown? Youtube PBL Playlist: http://bit.ly/PBLinactionvids
- 24. Our path… www.openingpaths.org • What is PBL and Why do it? • How can I get started? • Reflect on my next steps…
- 25. Where to Start… • Project Idea • Significant Content • Audience who will benefit (beyond building) • Authentic product/performance (draft) • Driving Question • Revise www.openingpaths.org
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- 27. www.openingpaths.org o YourCommunity o Your Students o Current Events o Real-World Practice/Problem o Your Content Standards o Online Project Libraries o Your File Cabinet o Your Colleagues
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- 32. CRITERIA FOR EVALUATINGYOUR DRIVING QUESTION: 1. Is it in student-friendly language, and will students find it interesting? 2. Is it open-ended and can be answered by the final product/performance? 3. Will the answer require in-depth content inquiry? 4. Does it relate to a real world problem, need, or opportunity? www.openingpaths.org Content Uncoverage
- 33. How do mathcalculations help us in the real world? www.openingpaths.org Content Uncoverage What December party proposal would be the most fun and cheap?
- 34. What US policiesand/or laws from the 1930s to 1960s effected US domestically and internationally? www.openingpaths.org Content Uncoverage How can we influence social justice locally, nationally, or globally?
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- 36. Look for… •Project Idea • Significant Content • Audience who will benefit (beyond building) • Authentic product/performance • Driving Question • Student engagement www.openingpaths.org Youtube PBL Playlist: http://bit.ly/PBLinactionvids
- 37. Our path… www.openingpaths.org • What is PBL and Why do it? • How can I get started? • Reflect on my next steps…
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- 42. http://bit.ly/OPpblresources www.openingpaths.org Explore • Explore the database links to projects and project ideas. • Find one project that you could use. • Be prepared to share
- 43. www.openingpaths.org Speed Dating • Sit in two rows. • Be knee to knee with the person opposite you. • Share your thoughts about PBL and/or the project you’re thinking about doing. • At time signal the right row will move rotate two seats to the left. • Repeat conversation with new partner.
- 44. Project-Based Learning http://bit.ly/PBLdemystified www.openingpaths.org Demystified John McCarthy, Ed.S. Opening Paths openingpaths.org/blog Twitter @Jmccarthyeds jmccarthy@openingpaths.org 734-3301421