Project Based Learning
Friday night is my favourite day spent online while learning from the others for just half an hour . I am a life-long learner and I love to learn from a great teacher and expert in new technologies I have met online: Shelly Terrell.
You can see her 30 minute webinars which are followed by passionate teachers and learners from all over the world who want to learn about the use of new technologies and can help them develop better lessons.
Her webinars are free and can be followed by anyone: here is the link to the service which you can access if you want to follow her presentations - Uk time 9:00 p.m. in the summer time.
https://americantesol.adobeconnect.com/_a754204412/terrell/
This Friday she worked on PBL by providing some tips and a long list of resources. I had followed her webinar last year too and I am just embedding the many recources which she shared on line and which I will check in the next weeks.
First of all, I need to say that after doing the Mooc about PBL I became aware of the importance of collaboration and the use of webtools in education. PBL can really change our way of working and Shelly reminded us that education and learning need to provide topics and issue for discussion and also for carrying out researches. When I was a secondary school student part of my tasks were based on doing researches and working in team but we could not work from home by using internet or a smartphone. Now our students can work from home, in school and with people living in different countries.
Project Based Learning with Technology from Shelly Sanchez Terrell
Shelly presented the main framework of what we mean by PBL and provided some tools and activities which we can use when we work on PBL activities.
Shelly presented the main framework of what we mean by PBL and provided some tools and activities which we can use when we work on PBL activities.
Why PBL?
There are many reasons for choosing it .
Online you can rely on the great site ttp://www.bie.org/ which can provide you with lots of ideas and tips.
"PBL is an effective and enjoyable way to learn - and develop deeper learning competencies required for success in college, career, and civic life. "
See more online http://www.bie.org/about/why_pbl
Shelly has provided us with a webpage where she has collected most of the resources related to PBL:
http://www.shellyterrell.com/pbl.html
The main steps of PBL can be summarized into these steps:
1) starting with a problem
2) working with the students in Group to discuss the problem
3) reseraching the problem
4) finding a solution
5) working on a presentation or a product
The driving question
When dealing with step one- we need to be able to find a driving question that can explain the problem https://www.edutopia.org/blog/pbl-how-to-write-driving-questions-andrew-miller
The driving question is important as it will guide the project work.
For the students it creates interest and a feeling of challenge .
Working on PBL tasks implies teaching and working in a different way and students will work with new tools and collaborate, they will work on different skills and develop skills which they need in real life.
More references are online:
http://www.bie.org/tag/Gold+Standard
http://www.aral.com.au/resources/guide.html ( ideas about action research)
Some examples of PBL in Europe : E-twinning
In Europe we have good examples of projects like E-twinning :https://www.etwinning.net/en/pub/index.htm
I have not worked on this project but I know that classes work together on some topics and they make videos, learning diaries and webpages showcasing what the students have done.
Link to some projects https://www.etwinning.net/en/pub/projects.cfm
THE ISSUE OF EVALUATION
Shelly reminded us of the importance of evaluation and provided us with some links which need to be checked to find out more:
https://thedigitalshift.wikispaces.com/Rubrics
https://newtechnetwork.org/resources/assessment-in-pbl/ ( you can find a rubric for downloading)
THE WEBTOOLS
After checking on line I could find these interesting links for webtools in PBL:
https://wvde.state.wv.us/teach21/PBLTools.html
http://www.teachthought.com/learning/project-based-learning/15-tools-for-better-project-based-learning/
https://www.commonsense.org/education/top-picks/tools-for-project-based-Learning
A good website created by a teacher who shared tools for PBL:
https://sites.google.com/a/livingstonisd.com/pbl-tools/
Thank you Shelly for your great support online: I will study more to develop my students' skillls and I really think that PBL can be a great journey into learning.
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