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Challenge-Based Learning
This document discusses challenge-based learning and its key principles. Challenge-based learning uses open-ended challenges to engage students in solving real-world problems. It emphasizes developing students' skills through scaffolding and performance-based assessments. Effective challenge-based learning uses essential questions to guide student inquiry and allows varying levels of student autonomy. The document provides examples of how to structure challenges and assessments to promote student responsibility and engagement in their learning.
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- 1. Challenge-Based Learning for Responsible and Engaged Learners Bill Dolton Adjunct Faculty, Wilkes University Educational Technology Consultant, William Dolton LLC Retired Supervisor of Educational Technology, LMSD bill@doltonroad.com
- 2. Agenda • What isChallenge-Based Learning? • Project Rubric & Larger Context Big Idea & Essential Questions Scaffold Performance Design Assessment • Sharing & Next Steps
- 3. ? What Is Challenge- Based Learning?
- 4. creative commons attribution: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ronsho/587483238/ semantics are important creative commons attribution: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ fchouse/2635218505/
- 5. Project-Based Learning ... morethan doing projects ...
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- 7. Problem-Based Learning focus onproblem-solution
- 8. Challenge-Based Learning broader rangeof inquiry
- 9. Range of Challenges • Experimental Inquiry • Problem-Solving • Decision-Making • Investigation • Systems Analysis • Invention
- 10. to teach scaffold learning creative commons attribution: http://www.flickr.com/photos/qilin/203966534/
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- 13. Big Ideas and Essential Questions
- 14. Matrix of EssentialQuestions Overarching Topical • broad and deep • stimulate inquiry • open & alive; lasting & • deepen understanding Open recurring • not answerable by unit • cut across unit, course, & end often subject boundaries • cut across unit, course, • unit-specific Guiding and often subject • yield one or several boundaries definitive or settled core • yield one or more understandings desired understandings -- from Wiggins and McTighe, UbD 2nd ed., p. 116
- 15. Scope/Intent Insights • Topical questions are necessary to focus on unit understanding but not sufficient for transfer or connections beyond the unit • Overarching/Open questions alone cannot link to core curriculum and can result in aimless discussion or frustrate students • Guiding questions alone can stifle intellectual freedom, inhibit student questions, and limit deep understanding • Topical questions must be explicitly matched with Overarching questions to be essential and lead students to on-going inquiry
- 16. Misconception Alert • ALeading Question is answerable by just remembering what was said or read, or knowing where to find the answer • A Topical Question demands analysis, interpretation, and construction of arguments — in other words, real thought, not just recall • The CONTEXT of use in the classroom is the key difference
- 17. The best unitsoffer “a delicate mix of open and guiding as well as topical and overarching inquiries ... show[ing] that intellectual freedom and creativity are valued alongside the most powerful insights of experts.” –Wiggins and McTighe, UbD 2nd ed., p. 118
- 19. Essential Questions Questions Matrix of Essential Worksheet Overarching Topical • broad and deep • stimulate inquiry • open & alive; lasting & • deepen understanding Open recurring • not answerable by unit • cut across unit, course, & end often subject boundaries • cut across unit, course, • unit-specific Guiding and often subject • yield one or several boundaries definitive or settled core • yield one or more understandings desired understandings -- from Wiggins and McTighe, UbD 2nd ed., p. 116
- 20. Sample Questions • Whatare numerators and denominators? • How can I be healthy? • What are the parts of a cell? • How did early explorers change the world? • How can we make a difference? • In what ways does our constitution protect our rights?
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- 23. Principles of Effective Assessment Photo Album vs. Snapshot Match Measures with Goals
- 24. Principles of Effective Assessment Photo Album vs. Snapshot Match Measures with Goals Knowing is binary;
- 25. Principles of Effective Assessment Photo Album vs. Snapshot Match Measures with Goals Knowing is binary; Understanding is a matter of degree.
- 26. Like the judicialsystem, we need a “preponderance of evidence” to convict students of learning! –Jay McTighe
- 27. Inauthentic Work Authentic Work Fill in the blank Conduct research using primary sources Select an answer from given choices Debate a controversial issue Answer recall questions at end of chapter Conduct a scientific investigation Solve contrived problems Solve “real-world” problems Practice decontextualized skills Interpret literature Diagram sentences Do purposeful writing for an audience –from Tomlinson & McTighe, Integrating Differentiated Instruction & Understanding by Design, p. 68
- 28. Characteristics of Performance Tasks • Realistically contextualized • Requires judgment and innovation • Student must “do” the subject • Replicates situations that “test” adults • Negotiating a complex, multi-stage task • Opportunities to rehearse & get feedback –from UbD, 2nd ed., pp. 153-155
- 29. Using GRASPS • Goal • Role • Audience • Situation • Product, Performance, and Purpose • Standards & Criteria for Success
- 30. Validity • Criterion-referenced • Directly aligned with standards, benchmarks, understandings, questions • Rubric development • Self-Test of Assessment
- 31. Reliability • Replicable results • Common assessment tool
- 32. Significance of Results • Criterion-referenced against standards and benchmarks • Comparison with Diagnostic Assessment to demonstrate growth • Both contribute to significance
- 33. Assessment Checklist • Aligned with Standards, Understandings, & Essential Questions • Performance-based context • Authentic situation (student perspective) • Variety of formats or modes of response involving some student choices • Established criteria • Tasks demonstrate understanding
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- 36. Scope Small Project Ambitious Project Duration 5 to 10 days Semester Multiple Disciplines Breadth 1 Topic, 1 Standard & Standards Technology Limited Extensive Outreach Classroom-based Community-based Multiple Teachers & Partnership One Teacher Community Audience Classroom, School Expert Panel
- 37. Student Role Limited Maximum Student Input Student Input Teacher selects Teacher solicits Students select topic student input topic Teacher crafts Students Students develop essential personalize questions questions questions Teacher defines Teacher & Students define learning students learning outcomes negotiate outcomes
- 38. Student Autonomy Limited Maximum Student Autonomy Student Autonomy Teacher defines Students define Teacher solicits products and products and student input activities activities Teacher controls Students are Students timeline and pace given some determine of the project choices timeline and pace
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- 40. Resources • Challenge-Based Learning http://ali.apple.com/cbl • Intelhttp://www.intel.com/education/elements Teach Elements • Buckhttp://www.pbl-online.org Institute for Education • Edutopia http://www.edutopia.org/project-learning • Project-Based Learning wiki https://lmsd-pbl.wikispaces.com
- 41. Challenge-Based Learning for Responsible and Engaged Learners Bill Dolton Adjunct Faculty, Wilkes University Educational Technology Consultant, William Dolton LLC Retired Supervisor of Educational Technology, LMSD bill@doltonroad.com
Editor's Notes
- #23 In effective assessments, we see a match between the type or format of the assessment and the needed evidence of achieving the desired results. If the goal is for students to learn basic facts and skills, then paper-and-pencil tests and quizzes generally provide adequate and efficient measures. However, when the goal is deep understanding, we rely on more complex performances to determine whether our goal has been reached. The graphic below reveals the general relationship between assessment types and the evidence they provide for different curriculum targets.
- #24 Click for “Knowing is binary” Click again for “Understanding is a matter of degree”
- #25 Click for “Knowing is binary” Click again for “Understanding is a matter of degree”
- #29 See handout (no page number) on rear of next sheet following p. 190
- #33 Assessment checklist immediately following Slide p. 52.
- #36 Often projects involve field research, interviews, library visits, and community inquiry. Scope should be determined before projects start. Consider student experience/readiness, schedule, subject/content, teacher comfort/expertise from Buck Institute
- #37 Developmental and readiness considerations from Buck Institute
- #38 from Buck Institute