I discovered several PBL projects from the Buck Institute that could be edited to fit into several content areas. All the projects I looked into had common features of brochures or videos with great enhancements. One such enhancement that is left out most of the time is to clearly define and assess Technology skills. While working in a rural school district in a technological advance society, I find it crucial that my students develop technological skills. By assessing these skills using the content standards and rubrics complete with learning outcomes assures me that each student grows their skills. Secondly, in most of the projects I research I noted that 21st Century Learning Skills are as essential to the project as the standards are. They are clearly embedded in the project requiring all students to critically think, communicate together, be creative, and collaborate as a team to accomplish the task. Lastly the project starts with the overall project. Then it is broken down into smaller tasks as the students begin their Inquiry based learning. Students receive feedback throughout the project and not just one summative assessment at the end.
Tuesday, August 4, 2015
EdTech 542 - Project Search
Throughout this week (July 6-July12 2015) we began searching out Project Based Learning example projects in order to begin developing our own. Throughout my research I discovered several common threads of PBL including an authentic problem, student choice, self-directed information gathering, and evidence-based mastery in the form of original authentic student products.
I discovered several PBL projects from the Buck Institute that could be edited to fit into several content areas. All the projects I looked into had common features of brochures or videos with great enhancements. One such enhancement that is left out most of the time is to clearly define and assess Technology skills. While working in a rural school district in a technological advance society, I find it crucial that my students develop technological skills. By assessing these skills using the content standards and rubrics complete with learning outcomes assures me that each student grows their skills. Secondly, in most of the projects I research I noted that 21st Century Learning Skills are as essential to the project as the standards are. They are clearly embedded in the project requiring all students to critically think, communicate together, be creative, and collaborate as a team to accomplish the task. Lastly the project starts with the overall project. Then it is broken down into smaller tasks as the students begin their Inquiry based learning. Students receive feedback throughout the project and not just one summative assessment at the end.
I discovered several PBL projects from the Buck Institute that could be edited to fit into several content areas. All the projects I looked into had common features of brochures or videos with great enhancements. One such enhancement that is left out most of the time is to clearly define and assess Technology skills. While working in a rural school district in a technological advance society, I find it crucial that my students develop technological skills. By assessing these skills using the content standards and rubrics complete with learning outcomes assures me that each student grows their skills. Secondly, in most of the projects I research I noted that 21st Century Learning Skills are as essential to the project as the standards are. They are clearly embedded in the project requiring all students to critically think, communicate together, be creative, and collaborate as a team to accomplish the task. Lastly the project starts with the overall project. Then it is broken down into smaller tasks as the students begin their Inquiry based learning. Students receive feedback throughout the project and not just one summative assessment at the end.
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