Toolbox+-+How+PBL+Makes+Learning+Relevant

=Toolbox - How Problem Based/Project Based Learning (PBL) Makes Learning & Assessment Relevant = ==// As a member of your district’s 1:1 team you are the instructional leaders who are both driving and supporting educational change. The goal of this workshop is to have you do a mini project designed to help you answer this question: **What is your role as an instructional leader in changing and supporting a pedagogical shift to project and problem based learning using 1:1 technologies?** //==

**Participants will:**
==**Determine their role in changing and supporting a pedagogical shift to project and problem based learning using 1:1 technologies.** ==

==I. Participants will do research on PBL in job alike teams using a PBL Web Quest (20 minutes) == Project and Problem Based Learning for Administrators WebQuest Reseach Results from PBL WebQuest

==**III.** Overview of assessment strategies, benefits and research on the effectiveness of PBL, and how to support a digital culture and staff (20 minutes) == Effectiveness of PBL PowerPoint--Linda Ullah  - Jaclyn Bell

**V. Reflection**
**PBL WORKSHOP REFLECTION** ==Additional Resources/Materials ==



**Rubrics**
References

Project Based Learning Wiki
==Definition, guiding documents (planning forms and charts), suggested reading links, project examples, ways to document and share projects, links to project sites ==

Essential Elements of Project Based Learning (Buck Institute)
==Home page for the Buck Institute for Educations project based learning site. This site has information on what project based learning is, why teachers would want to use project based learning, and how to create good projects. ==

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Buck Institute PBL Tutorial
==<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Tutorial based on excerpts from the BIE PBL Starter Kit and highlights from the BIE PBL 101 Workshop. This tutorial will help you share resources with your colleagues, provide professional development and technical assistance opportunities, and offer tools for improving your practice. ==

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">How to Create an Inquiry Based Project
==<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">“Inquiry-based learning is not a new technique—in fact, it goes back to education philosopher John Dewey—but it does stand in contrast to the more structured, curriculum-centered framework of today’s schools. == ==<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Asking questions is at the heart of inquiry-based learning. The goal is not to ask just any questions, of course, but ones that kids honestly care about. Your role is to guide the kids in finding the answers themselves and encourage them to ask new questions along the way.” ==

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">ThinkQuest
==<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The Thinkquest Library contains over 7,000 websites created by students around the world who have participated in a ThinkQuest Competition. You might also consider having your students enter the Thinkquest competition. ==

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">WebQuest
==<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Bernie Dodge’s (San Diego State) WebQuest site has a searchable library of WebQuest projects in a variety of content areas and grade levels. It also has information on how to set up a WebQuest. The process looks very much like our Project Briefcase. There is also an only WebQuest creator tool and research on inquiry-based instruction. ==

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">PBL Net Exemplary Projects
==<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">This site is a little old. It was created by West Ed several years ago. Some of the links to the actual projects sites may no longer exist, but there are good project summaries for all projects chosen for this site. There are also links to PBL and assessment resources, research and Web sites. Again, some of the links no longer exist since this in an archived site, but there are also some great resources. ==

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Web Exhibits
==<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">This is an online virtual museum with interesting exhibits that could be use for student research, or as motivation for Web-based student projects. ==

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">AT&T’s Blue Web’N
==<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Blue Web’n is an online library of 2182 outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (tools, references, lessons, hotlists, resources, tutorials, activities, projects). You can also do a quick search using the search box below. You can search by grade level (Refined Search), broad subject area (Content Areas), or specific sub-categories (Subject Area). ==

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">SCORE (Schools of California Online Resources for Educators)
==<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">These resources in the 4 core content areas were designed for CA Standards, but there are great resources classes throughout the nation. There are project ideas/plans for each of the 4 core content areas that are directly tied to CA Content Standards. ==

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Flat Classroom Project
==<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">"The Flat Classroom Project is a global, collaborative project using Web 2.0 tools to foster communication, collaboration and creation. For inspiration and content material it draws on the work of Thomas Friedman and ’The World is Flat’." ==

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">iEarn
==<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">“Global network that enables teachers and youth to use the Internet and other technologies to collaborate on projects that enhance learning and make a difference in the world.” There is a fee to join iEarn. ==

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Projects--Collaborative-- Project Based Learning
==<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">" Use these resources for your project based learning and collaborative based teaching. While you are using PBL in the classroom, search here for data sources, biography and inventor topics, subject area topics for development like math, science, and weather, and projects on countries and continents. There are projects for elementary levels as well as project ideas for middle and high school. Also listed are problem based learning topics. Please explore them all! You will find great ideas for PBL learning." ==

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Global Wiki Project--WiTTIE
==<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">"At WiTTIE, our primary goal is to make wikis work for all sorts of educators. We’ve seen the power wikis can have to change the dynamics of a learning environment and result in powerful student learning; however, lots of the things about wikis we’ve worked with in the past don’t mesh well with educators’ specific needs. Because of this fact, only a small number of educators are incorporating wikis into their instruction. " ==

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Site requires you to set up an account. It’s free, quick and easy.
==<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Primarily, the PBL Co-Laboratory was created for the purpose of allowing PBL members (users who have created an account on the PBL website) to collaborate on project-based learning activities. For example, when users submit original projects to the PBL Co-Laboratory, they will be automatically assigned as the author of that project. This will allow that user to control and maintain the overall structure and content of a project. Additionally, PBL authors can give other users permission rights to participate in that project. == ==<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The PBL Co-Laboratory was also designed as a collaborative project development tool. This means that the PBL Co-Laboratory will allow multiple users to work together in creating project-based learning activities. While the main section of the PBL website (http://www.pbl-online.org/) contains the information about project-based learning, here we will focus on how to use the PBL Co-Laboratory as a tool for collaboration and development. ==

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">My eCoach
==<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">This is an online learning community that allows educators to develop websites, surveys, quizzes, calendars, and blogs, cite sources, upload podcasts, embed Web 2.0 tools and review projects and resources that are aligned standards, The cost is $35 per person for a life-time membership ==

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">How to Create Driving Questions for Projects
==<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Video on how to create a tubric: "The **TUBRIC**TM is not only a great hands-on activity to do with teachers during professional development, but it’s also a great collaborative tool to help your students create their very own Driving Questions for their projects." ==

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Questioning Tool Kit
==<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Jamie McKenzie’s (From Now On) Questioning Tool Kit is a great resources for helping with driving questions, Socratic questioning, or helping students come up with good essential ==

==<span class="bodytext" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Bloom’s Taxonomy Wheel for Writing Learning Outcomes == ==<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Images of Bloom’s Taxonomy Wheels and links to resources that will help with the writing of higher order thinking learning outcomes and planning project products ==

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Interactives
==<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">"Interactives" provides educators and students with strategies, content, and activities that can enhance and improve students’ skills in a variety of curricular areas.” The site contains interactive information for science, math, literature, language, history and the arts. ==

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Castle Learning
==<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Castle Learning is a subscription-based web site for students and teachers, that provides content assessments for Math, Science, Social Studies, English and Foreign Languages. ==

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Teachers First
==<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">" TeachersFirst is a rich collection of lessons, [|units], and [|web resources] designed to save teachers time by delivering just what they need in a practical, user-friendly, and ad-free format. We offer our own professional and classroom-ready content along with thousands of reviewed web resources, including practical ideas for classroom use and [|safe classroom use of Web 2.0]. Busy teachers, parents, and students can find resources using our [|subject/grade level search], [|keyword search], or extensive menus." ==

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