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?