4. PBL is NOT New
CARL ROGERS
1902 - 1987
JOHN DEWEY
1859-1952
BENJAMIN
BLOOM
1913-1999
SOCRATES
470-399 B.C.
JEROME
BRUNER
1915-CURRENT
LEV
VYGOTSKY
1896-1934
JEAN
PIAGET
1896-1980
SEYMOUR
PAPART
5. Learning:
an active process in which students
construct new ideas or concepts based
on their current knowledge.
6. Seven Elements of Project-
Based Learning
Standards Based
Assessment
Student Centered
Collaboration
Real World Connection
Extended Time Frame
Multimedia
7. Another Way to Look at What is
PBL
Content
Conditions
Activities
Results
8. 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
Traditional Instruction
Emphasizes
Project Based
Learning Emphasizes
9. 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
Traditional Instruction
Emphasizes
Project Based
Learning Emphasizes
10. Materials of
instruction
•Direct or original
sources: printed
materials, interviews,
documents, and
others
•Data and materials
developed by students
Traditional Instruction
Emphasizes
Project Based
Learning Emphasizes
Materials of
instruction
•Texts, lectures and
presentations
•Teacher-developed
exercise sheets and
activities
11. Use of
technology
•Central, integral
•Directed by students
•Useful for enhancing
student presentations
or amplifying student
capabilities
Traditional Instruction
Emphasizes
Project Based
Learning Emphasizes
Use of technology
•Ancillary, peripheral
•Administered by
teachers
•Useful for enhancing
teachers' presentations
12. 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
Traditional Instruction
Emphasizes
Project Based
Learning Emphasizes
13. Student role
•Carry out instructions
•Memorizer and repeater
of facts
•Students receive and
complete brief tasks
•Listen, behave, speak
only when spoken to
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
Traditional Instruction
Emphasizes
Project Based
Learning Emphasizes
