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Project based learning

Project based learning. An overview, based on the work of Stephen Downes. Who is Stephen Downes?.

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Project based learning

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  1. Project based learning An overview, based on the work of Stephen Downes

  2. Who is Stephen Downes? • Born in Montreal, Quebec, Stephen Downes lived and worked across Canada before joining the National Research Council as a senior researcher in November, 2001. Currently based in Moncton, New Brunswick, at the Institute for Information Technology's Internet Logic Research Group, Stephen has become a leading voice in the areas of learning objects and metadata, weblogs in education, content syndication, digital rights and related issues. • Stephen is perhaps best known for his daily research newsletter, OLDaily (short for Online Learning Daily), which reaches thousands of readers across Canada and around the world. His work also includes the development of educational content syndication systems such as Edu_RSS and DLORN along and the design of a digital rights management system for learning resources. Stephen is also frequently to be found the road giving seminars and lectures on the field of online learning, including the notable Buntine Oration delivered in Perth, Australia, in October, 2004. • http://www.downes.ca/me/index.htm

  3. What is it? • Project-based learning, or PBL (often "PjBL" to avoid confusion with "Problem-based Learning"), is the use of classroom projects, intended to bring about deep learning, where students use technology and inquiry to engage with issues and questions that are relevant to their lives. These classroom projects are used to assess student's subject matter competence compared to traditional testing. • http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?topic=122

  4. Why would we do it? • Project-based learning (PBL) provides complex tasks based on challenging questions or problems that involve the students' problem solving, decision making, investigative skills, and reflection that include teacher facilitation, but not direction. Project Based Learning is focused on questions that drive students to encounter the central concepts and principles of a subject hands-on. • With Project-based learning students learn from these experiences and take them into account and apply them to their lives in the real world. PBL is a different teaching technique that promotes and practices new learning habits. The students have to think in original ways to come up with the solutions to these real world problems. It helps with their creative thinking skills by showing that there are many ways to solve a problem. • http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?topic=122

  5. How is it structured? • Project-based learning (PBL) is an approach for classroom activity that emphasizes learning activities that are long-term, interdisciplinary and student-centered. This approach is generally less structured than traditional, teacher-led classroom activities; in a project-based class, students often must organize their own work and manage their own time. Within the project based learning framework students collaborate, working together to make sense of what is going on. Project-based instruction differs from inquiry-based activity by its emphasis on collaborative learning. Additionally, project-based instruction differs from traditional inquiry by its emphasis on students' own artifact construction to represent what is being learned. http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?topic=122

  6. What does it look like? • Elements of a good project based learning experience include: • A fertile question or issue that is rich, real and relevant to the students’ lives • Real world use of technology • Student-directed learning and/or the deliberate engagement of student voice • Collaboration • Multi-disciplinary components • Long term (more than 3 weeks) time frame • Outcomes-based, with an artifact, presentation, or action as a result of the inquiry • Project should be focused on making sure students are learning. • http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?topic=122

  7. More resources • See also • http://mlq.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/32/1/61 • http://pblmm.k12.ca.us/PBLGuide/WhyPBL.html • http://www.jstor.org/sici?sici=1050-8406(1998)7%3A3%2F4%3C271%3ADWULFR%3E2.0.CO%3B2-2

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