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What is PBL?

 * According to [|Wikipedia],** Project based learning**, or PBL, is a constructivist pedagogy that intends to bring about deep learning by allowing learners to use an inquiry based approach to engage with issues and questions that are rich, real and relevant to their lives. This strategy is well served since the onset of the read/write Web. Teachers have ready made content easily available via the Web and the tools to allow for creative student directed creation of content related to the problems and questions contained in the project being studied.**

**[|Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach's]** **Guiding Documents for PBL**
These documents are licensed under a [|Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License]**
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 * [|Characteristics of Creative People] ||
 * [|Learning Experiences Chart] ||
 * [|Evaluation Critera] ||
 * [|Guidelines for Planning Meaningful Learning Experiences] ||
 * [|Guidelines for Selecting PBL Topics] ||
 * [|Guidelines for Developing PBL Units] ||
 * [|Evaluation Checklist for PBL Units] ||
 * PowerPoints I have used to explain PBL and techno-constructivism**

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 * Videos that show what it looks like in practice**

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//"The main problem is not the absence of innovation in schools, but rather the presence// //of too many disconnected, episodic, fragmented, superficially adorned projects."// Fullan, M., (2001), The New Meaning of Educational Change, New York: Teachers’ College Press

Project Examples
//Community Driven// [|23Thingsters (NING)] //Flat Classroom Project (students)// http://flatclassroomproject.wikispaces.com/ //Musical Plates (students)// http://www.k12science.org/curriculum/musicalplates3/en/teacherstory.shtml //On the Trail of the First People// http://eev.liu.edu/KK/na/index.htm //Web 2.0 Project (staff/student)// http://www.wtvi.com/teks/web2/ //Web 2.0 Project (staff/student)// http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listweb20s.html

=Examples of Community Developed Projects=

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Alabama Schools [|More Alabama artificats] Randolph CSD Springville Griffith Holland Webster Trace Your Trash Our Lost Children The Lovett School Paideia School's Pi 2.0 Class Charlotte Country Day Harpeth Hall Greater Atlanta Christian Presbyterian Day School Randolph School Lunch 2.0 K12 Learning 2.0 & 23 Things FAQ- Learning 2.0 Lakeview Academy David Lipscomb

Ways to Document and Share Your Projects
//Blog to Document// http://newliteracy.globalteacher.org.au/ http://www.sjeds.com/blog/china/

//Wiki to Document// http://www.learningismessy.com/PublicService.htm http://westwood.wikispaces.com/Wildcat+Web+2+Project

//Podcast to Document// [|http://allanah.podomatic.com]

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Project Sites
http://virtual-architecture.wm.edu/ http://www.technospudprojects.com/ http://projectsbyjen.ning.com/ http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/route21/ http://www.bie.org/index.php/site/PBE/pbe_units_overview/ http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/edproj.html http://www.ozprojects.edna.edu.au/sibling/go/pid/27 http://www.ozprojects.edna.edu.au/sibling/search?action=Browse http://www.globalclassroom.org/collaboration/globalprojects.html http://www.virtualclassroom.org/ http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/sites/index.html http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/lessons/index.html http://www.ciese.org/currichome.html http://www.coollessons.org/coolunits.htm

Lesson Plans
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/broadway/teachers/lp1.html http://www.fallcreek.k12.wi.us/fcelem/GradeLevels/Third/WalkerN/Multimedia_Lesson_Plan.htm http://www3.cesa10.k12.wi.us/clustera/summer/2002/Mondovi_Human_body/lessonplan.htm http://cnets.iste.org/students/pdf/6-8EarthMovement.pdf http://www.k12science.org/curriculum/musicalplates3/en/teacherstory.shtml

**Suggested Readings Around Constructivist Approaches**

 * [|Virtual-Arch] || Dr. Judi Harris' Telementoring Project ||
 * [|Inquiry Based Learning resources] || iearn-canada ||
 * [|Edutopia’s tech integration resources] || The Big List ||
 * [|Edutopia Reverse Mentorship] || Kids teach teachers ||
 * [|PBL Checklist] || PBL Checklist ||
 * [|PBL Templates] || Templates ||
 * [|Plan] || Planning Form ||
 * [|Tool] || Implementation Tools ||
 * [| Fine Tune] || Tuning Activity ||
 * [|PBL Rubrics] || Rubrics ||  ||
 * [|PBL Curriculum] || Curriculum ||
 * [|Articles/Tools/More] || Shambles E-Learning ||
 * [|Building Web 2.0 Classrooms] || K12 Online ||

PBL Suggested Readings

 * [|Edutopia] || In project-based learning, students work in teams to explore real-world ... New Skills for a New Century ||
 * [|PBLChecklists] || Checklists to support Project Based Learning and evaluation ||
 * [|PBL Module] || The Project-Based Learning (PBL) module is designed for either a two- to three-hour class or session or a one- to two-day workshop, and is divided into two parts. ||
 * [|SRI International Evaluation] || Project-based learning with multimedia ||
 * [|Expeditionary Learning Schools Outward Bound] || Comprehensive K-12 educational design. Our approach combines rigorous academic content and real world projects -- learning expeditions -- with active teaching and community service.Schools using this approach showed significant test score gains ||
 * [|Jamie McKenzie] || questioning, sound intelligence, strategic reading and quality teaching ||
 * [|The Multimedia Project] || Project-Based Learning with Multimedia: "Why Do Project-Based Learning? ||
 * [|The Project Approach] || Sylvia Chard ||
 * [|Project-Based Learning] || Buck Institute for Education ||
 * [|Criteria for Authentic Project-Based Learning] || Star Center ||
 * [|ISTE Research Projects] || The Road Ahead (Project-Based Learning) ||
 * [|PBL Overview] || PBL at EdTech Project Overview ||
 * [|Templates] || PBL Unit and Lesson Plan Templates ||
 * [|PBL.NET] || Design and Invention Center ||
 * [|PBL w/ Tech] || THE CHALLENGE: Can you, using your grade level science material, links given below, any other current information you can find, and your state and national standards, design a fairly comprehensive PBL unit (more details below) that (a) teaches the science you are supposed to be teaching, (b) does so in a PBL framework, and (c) gets your students to answer the driving question: How can my household lower our energy use by 5%? And what will it cost (in comfort, convenience, and money)? ||
 * [|Designing Developing a PBL Unit.] || Illinois Science and Mathematics Academy tutorial & guidelines. ||
 * [|Problem Based Learning] || Technology School Of the Future, Adelaide, Australia. ||