Reinventing Project Based Learning: Your Field Guide to Real-World Projects in the Digital Age
Reinventing Project Based Learning: Your Field Guide to Real-World Projects in the Digital Age
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Overview
This popular ISTE title follows the arc of a project, providing guided opportunities to direct and reflect educators’ own learning and professional development. This book shows how to design authentic projects that make the most of available and emerging technologies.
This new edition:
- Provides examples of how to merge personalized learning, flipped classrooms, and PBL for effective teaching and learning.
- Includes coverage of computational thinking and coding, demonstrating ways to develop new approaches to solving problems as well as new forms of expression.
- Discusses PBL as an equity consideration, with opportunities for personalization and empowerment, addressing issues of social justice and closing the achievement gap.
- Includes coverage on new trends like augmented and virtual reality; and new and updated Spotlights from educators featured in the first edition and others.
- Features deeper focus on Gold Standard and High Quality PBL, the P21 Framework, and ISTE Standards for Students and Educators.
With this book, teachers will come to appreciate the importance of problem-finding and problem-posing — thoughtful activity that needs to precede problem solving in any context.
The companion jump start guide based on this book is Project-Based Learning: Strategies and Tools for Creating Authentic Experiences.
Audience: K-12 classroom teachers, teacher educators
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781564847195 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | International Society for Technology in Education |
| Publication date: | 11/14/2018 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 2 MB |
About the Author
A former teacher in Oregon schools, Jane Krauss divides her time between curriculum and program development for the National Center for Women&Information Technology and professional development for project-based learning in the U.S. and internationally. In her previous role as director of Professional Development Services at ISTE, Krauss managed programs and provided professional development on technology integration to educators around the world.
Table of Contents
Introduction to the Third Edition 1
Starting Your Journey 3
Learning from PBL Scouts 5
How to Use This Book: Turn It into Your Own Project 6
Your Turn: Where Are You Starting? 11
Section I Anticipation
Chapter 1 Mapping the Journey-Seeing the Big Picture 15
Side Trip: The Case for High-Quality PBL 18
Side Trip: Lurk and Learn 22
Teachers Are Learners, Too 23
Spotlight: New Tech Network 24
Getting Ready 27
Your Investment 30
What's Next? 31
Technology Focus: Shared Research 31
Your Turn: Start with the Big Picture 33
Chapter 2 Finding Your Fellow Travelers 35
Change Happens 37
Spotlight: Changing Their Worldview 41
School as a Learning Organization 42
Spotlight: High Tech High 44
Side Trip: Project-Tuning Protocol 49
Communities within Communities 52
Technology Focus: Online Communities 54
How to Start? 56
Get Your Feet Wet 57
Your Turn: Reading Croup 60
Section II Packing Up
Chapter 3 Imagining the Possibilities 63
What Is Most Important? 64
What's the "Big idea"? 65
Technology Focus: Create a Wiki 66
Spotlight: Lanier Cluster, Gwinnett County, Georgia 70
Planning for Rigor and Digital-Age Skills 74
Digital-Age Literacies-A Synthesis 75
Spotlight: Expanding interest in Computer Science 81
Learning Dispositions 85
Spotlight: Thinking Aloud about Learning Dispositions 87
Keep Your Students in Mind 87
Essential Learning with Digital Tools and the Web 88
Your Turn: Develop a Conceptual Framework for Your Project 91
Chapter 4 Strategies for Discovery 93
Reviewing Projects 95
Overcoming Pitfalls 95
Designing Terrific Projects: Getting Started 99
Side Trip: Project Design Resources 101
The Best Projects Share Important Features 102
Where Project Ideas Come From 103
Technology Focus: Collect and Track Assets Online 105
Spotlight: Science Leadership Academy 106
Your Turn: Design Your Project 107
Chapter 5 Making Assessment Meaningful 111
Authentic Assessments in PBL 112
Plan for Summative Assessment 114
Plan for Formative Assessment 127
Spotlight: Just-in-Time Feedback 138
Technology Focus: Online Grade Books 140
Your Turn: Review Work Samples 141
Chapter 6 Project Management Strategies for Teachers and Learners 143
Side Trip: Be Resourceful 145
Gathering Resources: What (and Who) Will You Need? 146
Spotlight: Creating Opportunities 147
Spotlight: Fielding Inquiry 149
Milestones and Deadlines: It's About Time 150
Team Planning 151
Spotlight: Teams That Maximize Results 153
Technology Focus: Project Management with Technology 153
Online Project Spaces 156
Your Turn: Set Up a Project Space 158
Section III Navigating the Learning Experience
Chapter 7 Project Launch-Implementation Strategies 161
Laying the Groundwork 162
Get Minds Ready 163
Ideas for Generating Interest and Promoting Inquiry 165
Teach the Fundamentals First 166
Prepare for Technology 169
Technology Focus: Screencasting 172
Promote Inquiry and Deep Learning 175
Build toward Information and Media Literacy: Less Looking, More Thinking 178
Technology Focus: Ripped from the Headlines 180
Your Turn: How to Tell Your Story 181
Chapter 8 A Guiding Hand-Keeping a Project Moving 183
Make Classroom Discussions More Productive 185
Spotlight: EL Education 191
Optimize Technology 194
Technology Focus: Podcasting 197
Help with Troubleshooting 198
Manage Conflict 199
Your Turn: Analyze Your Classroom Conversations 200
Section IV Expanding Your Circle
Chapter 9 Building Connections and Branching Out 203
Connecting with Experts 205
Expanding the Learning Circle 208
Technology Focus: Online Collaboration 210
Communicating Findings 211
Spotlight: Learning in Place 212
Technology Focus: Tools to Build Geo-Literacy 213
Spotlight: EAST; Technology-Powered Service 215
Engage Community for Culminating Events 218
Let Students Lead 220
Extending the Benefits 221
Your Turn: Where Next? 222
Chapter 10 Celebrating and Reflecting 223
Reflect on the Journey 224
Plan Your Reflection Questions 225
Elaborate: Where to Now? 226
Build Tradition and Identity: "We Are the School Where Kids Get to …" 227
Technology Focus: Photo Sharing 228
Celebrate! 230
Display Student Work 230
Year-in-Review Retrospective to Celebrate Learning 230
Your Turn: Plan a Celebration 231
Section V Unpacking
Chapter 11 Bringing It Home 235
Capitalize on Your Investment 236
Critique with Colleagues 237
Share Your Insights 240
Become a Resource for Your Colleagues 241
Enter a Contest 241
Enjoy the Journey 242
Your Turn: Join the Blogosphere or Twitterverse 243
Chapter 12 On the Horizon: What's Next for PBL? 245
Forecast: Demand Real-World, High-Quality Learning Experiences 247
Forecast: More Opportunities to Build Teacher Capacity 248
Forecast: Expand Access to Computational Thinking 249
Forecast: Connect PBL with Global (and Local) Goals 252
Forecast: Develop the PBL Mindset 253
Forecast: Reconsider When and How Students Learn 254
Forecast: Teachers Find More Ways to Learn Together 255
A Final Story 255
Appendix A Digital Tools for All Phases of the PBL Cycle 259
Appendix B ISTE Standards for Students 271
Appendix C Reading Group Guide: Questions for Discussion 275
Appendix D Bibliography 279
References 279
Additional Readings 285
Index 287