make it matter! moving from projects to pbl
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Make It Matter!Moving from projects to project-based learning
Melinda Kolk
PBLPBL! PBL
PBLPBL!
From Instruction to Construction
Teaching Learning
Lecture PBL
“I’m at a high school that was built
five years ago.”
Text message:
From Instruction to Construction
Teaching Learning
Lecture PBLProjects
You want to do PBL?
It matters how you do it!
Ideas that matter!
40-40-40
What does it mean to be educated?
PBL
Ideas that matter!
Is this about cover or uncover?
Work that matters!• More than academic• Real problems• Personally meaningful• Valuable products/performances
Work that matters!• Done by or for someone outside
the classroom.
• Has value to the community beyond the school.
Who cares?
Effort that matters!• Learner choice• Learner control (self-direction)• Learning together (collaboration)
I want control
I’m the expert!
I want choices
It’s ours!
You want to do PBL?
It matters how you do it!