Dawn Thompson » project-based learning http://dawnthompson.edublogs.org Life:Live It! Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:44:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Project-Based Learning http://dawnthompson.edublogs.org/2008/07/20/project-based-learning/ http://dawnthompson.edublogs.org/2008/07/20/project-based-learning/#comments Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:39:29 +0000 dawnthompson http://dawnthompson.edublogs.org/?p=30 I’d like to include the notes I took at NECC 2008. These notes are from Innovative Project-Based Learning: Strategies from K-College. Presented by Christy G. Keeler, Ph.D. and Heather B. Rampton, M.Ed.
at the National Educational Computing Conference, San Antonio 2008

For sample activities, you may visit Keeler’s blog at http://keelerthoughts.blogspot.com.

What’s PBL

Students learn content while constructing an artifact. Our job is to teach content and 21st century skills. We should be content focused and artifact driven.

Content  80%   Artifact 20%  I

I’m not sure where I heard this breakdown, but it makes sense. We’ve said from the beginning that technology is a tool for teaching our content.

Strategies:

Video

  • adapting literature
  • research-based video reports
  • audio
  • Day in the Life Journal Memoirs

Blogs

  • journaling
  • daily homework
  • eportfolio space

Digital Photography

  • scavenger hunt
  • Flickr
  • movie poster

Page Layout Software

  • book review
  • tri-fold brochures

Common Applications

 

 

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