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"Not only does project based learning motivate students because it is an authentic use of technology, it facilitates active learning, critical thinking, collaboration, and creativity. Projects begin with a driving question–an open-ended question that sets the stage for the project by creating interest and curiosity."
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This post by Tony Vincent provides an in-depth look at how to craft driving questions that promote project based learning. It begins with a discussion of why you would choose to use driving questions and then turns to projects and shares what he believes makes a good project, one that will make a "dent" in the world. Additional areas explored include: * What comes first,the driving question or the learning goals? * Who writes the question? * The many types of driving questions (and the list includes seven categories) as well as resources that will help you craft a driving question. * Refining the question * Outcomes * Branching questions There are quite a few examples of driving questions provided as well as links to some additional resources. If you are planning on having project based learning a component of your classroom this post provides great foundational material to help you create a great driving question. 
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"Most teachers and current textbooks offer varied approaches to the material to be learned so the teaching can be brain-compatible with the varied student learning styles. It is only logical that respect for these individual learning styles be incorporated into assessment forms."
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What types of assessments are best to use, that allow students to demonstrate what they know? Five suggestions are provided (and more depth may be found in the post). * Option 1: Open-Book & Take-Home Tests - but this is not the type of open book test you might think of at first. You want your students to "synthesize disparate facts and perspectives to construct new knowledge." * Option 2: Student-Made Tests - have students submit questions and rewrite/rephrase to have students show higher order thinking skills. This suggestion also includes a section on How My Students Create And Study For Their Own Exams. * Option 3: The Complexity & Diversity Of Project-Based Learning -Think about projects that will let students show mastery of new knowledge. * Option 4: Written Response–Or Rather, The Pre-Writing -This may seem like an odd choice but read the description in the post to understand the reasoning. * Option 5: Ask A Question - Not just any question but one that will require students to think beyond the book. This section moves you from a question that is topic based to one that will show understanding.
Christopher Resetar's curator insight,
February 13, 2014 12:00 PM
Like other comments on this scoop, I really like this article, especially items #1 and #2. I really like those options because they are unconventional options that I still think would provide an appropriate level of challenge for the students as well as provide an alternative form of just a simple pencil and paper exam. I think option #1 is more feasible for elementary school because it would allow students to work on skills that are more age appropriate like consolidation of information and looking for quality source material. 
Ruby Day's curator insight,
February 14, 2014 3:45 PM
Sounds like some great ideas to stimulate critical thinking 
Audrey's curator insight,
March 5, 2014 6:51 PM
All 5 assessment methods involves students leading the learning. Asking the students questions based on their reading of the topic helps their analytical skills and allows them to be in charge of their learning.
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This infographic shows you the 7-Phase Model and the 7 Essentials of Project-Based Learning. The 7 Phase Model information comes from an article published by Edutopia (and is linked to in the post) and The 7 Essentials is based on a PBL GUide: A Resource for Instructors and Program Administrators, published by the National Academy Foundation and the Pearson Foundation. For more information on this topic be sure to check out these two resources.
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Beth Dichter's insight:
The graphic (above) provides a nice visual to help understand the difference between project based learning and traditional units with a final project. Where are the differences? Traditional units have lectures, activities, quizzes, a review, an exam the project. With project bases learning you begin with an event plus a rubric and then move through a series of activites that help students reach benchmarks. Project based learning is authentic learning. More information on this can be found in the post.
Melissa Jenkins 's curator insight,
November 16, 2013 9:03 AM
Good visual as to how we should be shifting learning.
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"Are you on a journey to find great PBL ideas? Then you have come to the right place. In fact, you just might want to spend some time here and also continue to come back. The first of my list includes sites that have created data bases of PBL Units. You will find units that you can use, improve, or incorporate as a base."
Beth Dichter's insight:
If you are going to be using Project Based Learning (PBL) in your classroom this year then take the time to check out this post. You will find 45 resources to help you along the way. Sections include: * Databases of PBL Units * Other PBL Idea Generators * Challenges and Competitions Each site is hot linked and there is a short description of what you will find if you click through. This post has put together an amazing number of PBL resources that will provide great resources to help make PBL successful in your classroom!
Lauren Yachera's curator insight,
February 19, 2014 2:48 PM
Useful links when it comes to coming up with a great PBL for the classroom. This website will be incredibly useful in the future! 
Danielle Howard's comment,
February 20, 2014 7:25 PM
Website that offers links to find PBL ideas. This will be great resource to use when struggling to come up with a project for students' interests.
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Welcome to a series that is must read for any PBL or STEM educator. It will include information to reflect and build upon as you consider both PBL and STEM. Best of all, it will finish with over ...
Beth Dichter's insight:
This is the final post in a series of five that explored STEM, PBL, and the Common Core and it focuses on resources for Project Based Learning units. "By searching through STEM subjects in these sites’ databases or directories you can come up with a PBL unit to use, remix, or possible implement a lesson from." An extensive list of resources is provided with short descriptions so you have a sense of what you may find.
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"Spark your students’ curiosity in engineering and technology by introducing them to the designers, inventors, and clever thinkers featured in PBS LearningMedia. Use their stories to illustrate various themes of study like the engineering design process and the impact of technology."
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PBS provides many resources that help students learn the design process, and this post provides a short description. There are projects for students in grades K-1 up through high school and beyond. Below are names of a few of the projects. * Designing a Wheelchair for Rugby - use to launch a design project in your classroom * Scientist Profile: Inventor - have your student meet a teen scientist and see what he invented...and have them design their own invention * A House for Teddy Bear - Watch young users use problem solving skills and trial and error as they create a house...and try it in your classroom. An additional three ideas are in the post and more may be found on the PBS website (http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/). You will need to create a log-in.
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"Welcome to a continuing series of posts based on the eight essential elements (BIE) that make up Project Based learning. In this post I would like to focus on "significant content. I have ten ideas..."
Beth Dichter's insight:
Gorman begins this post by providing a definition of Project Based Learning that looks at the final project as the "desert." He states "In true Project Based Learning the project uncovers and facilitates the learning of significant content. In PBL there is a balancing of learning that occurs through out the project duration." He discussed PBL in relation to the four C's (Collaboration, Communication, Critical Thinking, and Creativity) noting that often PBL becomes too focused on the four C's. There is also the need to make sure that there is sufficient scaffolding for the learners. To assist in learning how to plan there is list of ten ideas that may be considered in the planning process and the first three are listed below (quoted from the post): * The entry event should show a relationship to the Driving Question promoting a “need to know” of significant content. * The Driving Question should allow students to uncover the curriculum in a student friendly and understandable manner. * The PBL planning sheet for students should line up with significant content in the curricular area being studied and assessed. Gorman has also provided a link to a PBL Planning Reflection Sheet.
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"Educators are always striving to find ways to make curriculum relevant in students’ everyday lives. More and more teachers are using social media around lessons, allowing students to use their cell phones to do research and participate in class, and developing their curriculum around projects to ground learning around an activity. These strategies are all part of a larger goal to help students connect to social and cultural spaces."
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A look at Henry Jenkins work on participatory learning and PLAY (Participatory Learning and You). So what is PLAY? "...'a mode of experimentation, of testing materials, trying out new solutions, exploring new horizons,' Jenkins said. It’s how kids interact with games – throwing themselves in without reading the rules, testing the limits and feeling free to try and fail." This post provides a number of examples, discusses assesement and play, and provides links to additional articles on the subject.
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What can we do in our classroom to inspire students to be more innovative and creative? This post shares one way we might do this, by instituting a 20% project. Read the post to explore the why, what, how, when and who, and to access additional resources.
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Project Based Learning - there are many views on this subject. This post provides a great diagram that helps to see the continua that one may consider when designing PBL. It looks at six issues: Trust (locus of control), Questioning, Collaboration, Content, Knowledge and Purpose. For example, with Trust the continua moves from teacher directed to student directed. Based on the project you may find that the location varies. A short description is provided for each of the six issues that you may want to consider as are additional resources.
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Beth Dichter's insight:
This is a quick view of Project Based Learning that may help your students (or teachers in your school new to PBL) understand the key components: * Driving question or challenge * Need to know * Inquiry and innovation * 21st century skills * Student voice and choice * Feedback and revision * Publicly presented product Project Based Learning is a great way for students to engage in authentic learning projects. For more information on Project Based Learning (and lots of great resources) check out the Buck Institute for Learning website located at http://bie.org/ They have been around for over 25 years and recently revamped their website.
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"Over the years, many of us have personally experienced the growth of technology in today’s classrooms. Instead of taking notes, students are now occupied by surfing the Internet, scrolling through Facebook, and messaging their friends on their smart phones, tablets, and laptops. Instead of focusing on the instruction, teachers are constantly required to interrupt class in order to remind those students again and again, that class time is for learning, not texting. However, as today’s students are using more technological devices, it is imperative that teachers have access to the resources to keep pace with the growing tech culture."
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This post provides 25 teaching tools which are split into five categories: * Organization * Project Based Learning * Classroom Management * Presentations * Assessments This wide assortment of tools may include a few that are new to you. Each is described in the post.
Heather MacDonald's curator insight,
December 19, 2013 2:32 PM
Teaching tools in a "tech culture" - even in the classroom...maybe especially in the classroom our teaching tools adapt in order to teach children best practices in organization and learning skills. 
Erica Strain's curator insight,
August 24, 2018 8:55 PM
Technology tools to help you get organized in the classroom
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Flipped classroom instruction teaching frees up time for Active Learning: Project Problem Constructivist Experiential Inquiry Based Learning Methods & Mastery Learning
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What may happen when you flip the classroom to promote active learning. This post explores a variety of types of active learning. * Experiential Learning * Inquiry Based Learning * Project Based Learning * Problem Based Learning * Constructivism * Mastery Learning Along with descriptions there are links to additional articles and resources.
Nicoletta Trentinaglia's curator insight,
January 28, 2014 6:46 AM
interesting suggestion on possible learning activities based on FC approach 
Miguel Angel Perez Alvarez's curator insight,
April 8, 2014 11:34 AM
Una metodología que facilita métodos activos del aprendizaje.
Alfredo Corell's curator insight,
April 8, 2014 3:09 PM
The author believes that flipped instruction tools and techniques are the right set of tools in the right package for many educators and classrooms, and more importantly for our students. KELLY WALSH
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While the schools may look different from the outside, they most definitely share a common purpose—to give ALL students the opportunity to learn in a Deeper Learning environment. And the schools are...
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Getting Smart has published an infographic that not only looks at deeper learning and provides an overview but also provides links to 20 schools across the US which have put deeper learning into practice. Learn about strategies that promote deeper learning, deeper learning competencies and click through to the schools (located in 13 states) to learn more from their websites. To access these sites you must download the pdf version of this infographic, available on the site or by at this address: http://gettingsmart.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/FINAL-Deeper-Learning-Infographic.pdf
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In an effort to help those teachers out, Katie and I found a fabulous new visual diagram that's all about which apps and tools go with the different parts of distributed project-based learning.
Beth Dichter's insight:
This infographic looks at Project Based Learning (PBL) and divides it into three main sections: * Organize and co-ordinate work * Build background knowledge & inspire * Co-design *making* The second and third areas are then decided to more clearly deliniate the areas each covers. The last final two sections provide more specific concepts of what it required and also one or more suggestions of tech tools that will assist the process. There are additional groupings as shown in the infographic above. More and more teachers are engaging in some form of PBL and this visual may serve as a great base to help create a strong foundation and provide ideas of technology tools that might assist in the process.
JennaMRyan's curator insight,
November 27, 2013 3:04 PM
http://www.edudemic.com/a-detailed-visual-guide-to-distributed-project-based-learning/
I really like this resources because it shows where students are getting information for their projects. The projects are learned through resources that are distributed across many different fields, websites, and search engines. This allows students to engage in many different types of content curation sites. Google and skype are a few examples of resources. The visual is broken up into instant learning and coalitious segments showing how some sites are good for overlapping purposes. This is an interesting view of PBL sources.
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The fourth in a series of five posts on STEM, PBL and the Common Core. Each has a different focus. The previous three posts are also available on this page.
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Formative assessments, formative learning, the two go hand in hand. This post explores 23 resources that can be used in STEM classes and for Project Based Learning, Read the post and find resources that will help look at formative assessments in many areas including: * Activities * Simulations * Games * Reflections * Journals * Peer review * Videos * Peer and Teacher interaction * Readings * Critical and Creative brainstorming and thinking
Ante Lauc's curator insight,
June 1, 2013 4:43 AM
I prefer love and freedom and look everything through these criterias.
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"One overriding challenge is now coming to the fore in public consciousness: We need to reinvent just about everything. Whether scientific advances, technology breakthroughs, new political and economic structures, environmental solutions, or an updated code of ethics for 21st century life, everything is in flux—and everything demands innovative, out of the box thinking."
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What comes to mind when you think of the word innovation? And if we apply innovation in education what are your thoughts? The Common Core informs us that we should be teaching creativity, curiosity, critical thinking, and more. If we look at innovation we meet these criteria. This post provides 10 ideas. Many of the ideas on the post provide links to additional resources. * Teach concepts, not facts. * Distinguish concepts from critical information. * Make skills as important as knowledge. * Use creativity tools.
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"Lately, there have been a bunch of buzzwords floating around the education world that all seem to mean the same thing. You’ve probably heard them: problem-based learning, project-based learning and inquiry-based learning. Is there a difference? How will you know which one to do in your classroom?"
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Are you looking for a cheat sheet to understand the differences between Problem-Based Learning, Project-Based Learning and Inquiry-Based Learning? This post will lend a hand. Each type of learning is given a definition, example, teaching tip, and where to go to get more information. If you are thinking of trying one of these types of learning and are not clear on which to choose this post may provide some insight to help you make your decision. Click through for more information.
Brad Reitzel's curator insight,
July 5, 2014 8:43 AM
this is a very insightful article that helps lay out the similarities and differences between project based, inquiry based and problem based learning styles. a good read for anyone looking to try them, and understand the differences between them. 
Ignacio Sáenz de Miera's curator insight,
November 6, 2014 5:03 AM
Muy útil esta referencia para poder orientarse en el campo de las metodologías procesuales. 
Mrs. Reinagel's curator insight,
August 4, 2015 11:32 AM
Are you looking for a cheat sheet to understand the differences between Problem-Based Learning, Project-Based Learning and Inquiry-Based Learning? This post will lend a hand. Each type of learning is given a definition, example, teaching tip, and where to go to get more information. If you are thinking of trying one of these types of learning and are not clear on which to choose this post may provide some insight to help you make your decision. Click through for more information.
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This post is written by a student and begins: Can creativity be taught? Absolutely. The real question is: “How do we teach it?” In school, instead of crossing subjects and classes, we teach them in a very rigid manner. Very rarely do you witness math and science teachers or English and history teachers collaborating with each other. Nikhil Goyal, a senior at Syosset High School then provides a look from the student viewpoint about what is and is not working in schools. A great read!
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According to the Buck Institute for Education a project is meaningful when it fulfills two criteria. The students “must perceive it as personally meaningful, as a task that matters…and a meaningful project fulfills an educational purpose.” This PDF provides 8 essential components to create meaningful projects. Each is explained using an example of a project with suggestions on how to make the project more robust. * Significant Content * A Need to Know * A Driving Question * Student Voice and Choice * 21st Century Skills * Inquiry and Innovation * Feedback and Revision * Publicly Presented Project
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PBLU – Project Based Learning University – Brought to you by the Buck Institute for Education. If you have asked yourself “How can I create a Project Based Learning course for my students check out this resource. PBLU (in beta) currently has nine project based projects you may choose to use in your classroom. The current projects are focused in ELA and math and range from third grade through high school. Projects include Back in the Day (high school, nonfiction writing), Choose Your Own Adventure (Grade 4, ELA/Social Studies, I Know What You’re Thinking (8th Grade, Math) and Schoolyard Habitat Project (Grades 3 – 5, Science). More projects will be added, and you may make suggestions.
Lucia Boettjer's curator insight,
September 16, 2020 9:04 AM
This has 2 major benefits. First that you can see 9 pre-made PBL's but you can also potentially earn a certification.
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This is a great post. Key ideas to use driving questions, tap into student passion and inspire meaningful learning.
Grabbing their attention in the beginning with great questions will give them the stamina to grapple with the inquiry process later.