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Visitors’ Day at CyberCamp
Introductions
Co-authors Reinventing Project-Based Learning: Your field guide to
real-world projects in the digital age
Suzie Boss
Jane Krauss
Reinventing PBL
reinventingpbl.blogspot.comflickr.com/groups/reinventingpbl
What we’ve heard from you…
Questions and frustrations are part of learning.
Creativity feels good, (re)ignites passion.
Collaboration helps on many levels.
Projects are challenging—but fun!
We want to know…
How does this mirror your students’ experience?
What will you want to remember about CyberCamp when you return to the classroom?
How will your projects…
• Probe matters of importance?• Mirror authentic work of professional
disciplines?• Make interdisciplinary connections?• Promote collaboration?• Develop knowledge, skills and dispositions?
Have you considered…
• Multiple points of entry, directions for learning, outcomes?
• Going beyond understanding and studying to some kind of action or resolve?
• Helping students begin to recognize how they learn?
Verbs for Project Actions
Revision by A.
Churches,
Tech Learning
April 1, 2008
Bloom’s
Digital
Taxonomy
http://tinyurl.com/2v9bse
Your questions…
From the blog:
1. Challenges faced/risks taken on our own journeys?
2. How do you keep up with the “latest” (in ed & tech) with the least amount of time?
3. How do you engage parents (without risking too much involvement or control)?
Technology…
Best uses
• Transformative • Makes processes transparent • Mirrors our children’s world• Promotes learning to learn activity
Life-Long, Life-Wide, Life-Deep
The LIFE Center (The Learning in Informal and Formal Environments Center), University of Washington,
Stanford University, and SRI International
Where learning occurs during waking hours over the course of one’s life
Bransford, et al 2007
Essential Learning Functions
Thinking differently about tech, shifting from:
How can I use [X tool] in my classroom? to What tool can help us…
...learn anywhere?…collaborate? …make ideas visible and discuss-
able?
1. Ubiquity2. Deep Learning3. Making things visible and discuss-able4. Expressing ourselves, sharing ideas, building
community5. Collaboration –Teaching and learning with others6. Real Research7. Project Management8. Reflection and Iteration
How did you expand or revise? Add to the wiki:
http://reinventingpbl.pbwiki.com/
Essential Learning Functions
Telannia Norfar9th grade, OK
More Exemplary Projects
Terry Smith 4th grade, MO Philadelphia Public Schools, PA
Professional LearningEmerging for-us by-us PD, supported by technology
PROJECT-BASED! INTEREST-DRIVEN! TRANSPARENT!
Welcome to this growing community! Teachers are…
•Learning anytime through many channels•Forming communities, social networks•Giving and getting peer-to-peer learning•Learning in ways that mirror experiences of School 2.0
For-Us-By-Us PD
• Edubloggercon, other “unconferences”
• Second Life • Classroom 2.0, other Nings• Elluminate, Tapped In• UStream events• Online courses
• PLCs
• Book groups
• CyberCamp!
•Wikis•Skype•Twitter •Diigo•Del.icio.us •Sharable apps, ie: Google docs, bubbl.us)
Attend And the Walls Came Down Viral PD at NECC: http://tinyurl.com/3orsy5
Your PLC
Local?
Distributed?
Virtual?
Fantasy?