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Technology Enhanced Project Based Learning. An Experiential Learning experience designed to enhance 21 st Century Skills. Technology Enhanced Project Based Learning.
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Technology Enhanced Project Based Learning An Experiential Learning experience designed to enhance 21st Century Skills
Technology Enhanced Project Based Learning • A student centered teaching and learning where student develops knowledge and skills through an extended task that promotes student inquiry and authentic demonstrations of learning in product and performances with the support of technology
Project Based Learning Characteristics • Student at the center of the learning process • The project focused on important learning objectives aligned with CS • The project is driven by Curriculum-framing Questions • Ongoing and multiple types of assessment are involved • Connected tasks and activities take place over a period of time • The project has real-world connections • Students demonstrate knowledge and skills through products and performances that are published, presented, or displayed • Technology supports and enhances student learning Intel Teach Program Essential Course, 2008
Students’ role • Problem solver • Decision maker • Investigator • Documentarian
Teachers’ role • Facilitator • Co-explorer • Coach • Motivator
Overview • A group of 8 students will carry out and experience a Project-based learning on the topic of Energy, in particular Nuclear Energy. The goal of the project is to determine whether nuclear energy can be the dominant energy source in Malaysia besides petroleum. Students will act as stakeholders (government and public) to decide whether nuclear energy is a good energy source alternative to petroleum for Malaysia.
Tasks for the project • Background reading about nuclear energy and related issues - Radioactive substances, production of nuclear energy and its uses, proper handling of radioactive substances, safety measures of nuclear power plant, nuclear disasters, etc. • Create online/offline survey (questionnaire), interview the people and experts, e-mail group members to discuss, set-up a wikispace for discussion, and to publish all questionnaire, interview questions, data and findings from research, organize a debate and a half-day seminar, write an article to the Editor of a prime newspaper, create a blog to reflect on your learning, and produce a brochure to enlighten the public and create awareness about the pros and cons of nuclear energy as an energy source so that they may become a more informed citizen when it comes to making decisions about whether Malaysia should depend on Nuclear Energy as the dominant energy in the future .
Tasks for the project • Students will be given 4 weeks to complete the project. Each week groups will report on their progress. At the end of the project there will be a half-day seminar where each group will present their findings to students and lecturers and perhaps inviting an expert as a guest speaker. They will also do self-reflection focusing on the challenges, highlights, strengths, and suggestions for improvements for future projects using blogs and peer-assessment.
