17 years of PBL Case Studies
Head to Tail
What I mean by Head to Tail is this:
Where did the project idea come from?
How was it developed?
Who was involved?
What were the skills and knowledge of the instructors?
What did we want the students to learn?
What did I do?
What did I have the students do?
How did we show the work?
Where did the project idea come from?
How was it developed?
Who was involved?
What were the skills and knowledge of the instructors?
What did we want the students to learn?
What did I do?
What did I have the students do?
How did we show the work?
As you look at these 20 projects, look at the Planning. What I did to prepare for the project to be successful for all or most of the students? What were the ideas that I developed and the processes that the students would follow to be successful? As the teacher, I lent my students my expertise and experience in art. I have the students use photoshop and other techniques that I specified for their success.
Planning is also doing the project yourself first. If you are going to teach, you need to know something even if you are a master doing and making shows you if the project is relevant, important, worthwhile and if it is fun for you and your students.
Notice the Management, I talked and planned with my teaching partner to create a collaboration plan. Teachers need to have a Mini Project so that students will do and make first not listen to a lecture. The scaffolding of steps that build and build to the project coming together in a large and complete exhibition, vertically integrated PBL so that everything I have the students do is connected.
Finally, have the students exhibit their high-quality work. It is not the goal of PBL to have beautiful work, but it is essential to the stakeholders. I believe that doing and making is vital for all the students to learn; it is the transformation of knowledge into a product, experience, or presentation.
I will not equivocate talking and planning with doing high-quality work that has been critiqued and improved upon. Not doing or making is copping out and undermining the student's experience and learning. Equity is doing and making using Cognitive, Affective, and Psychomotor domains, just talking is only Cognitive, and that is the same ivory tower singularity that caused the educational mess we are in.
Planning is also doing the project yourself first. If you are going to teach, you need to know something even if you are a master doing and making shows you if the project is relevant, important, worthwhile and if it is fun for you and your students.
Notice the Management, I talked and planned with my teaching partner to create a collaboration plan. Teachers need to have a Mini Project so that students will do and make first not listen to a lecture. The scaffolding of steps that build and build to the project coming together in a large and complete exhibition, vertically integrated PBL so that everything I have the students do is connected.
Finally, have the students exhibit their high-quality work. It is not the goal of PBL to have beautiful work, but it is essential to the stakeholders. I believe that doing and making is vital for all the students to learn; it is the transformation of knowledge into a product, experience, or presentation.
I will not equivocate talking and planning with doing high-quality work that has been critiqued and improved upon. Not doing or making is copping out and undermining the student's experience and learning. Equity is doing and making using Cognitive, Affective, and Psychomotor domains, just talking is only Cognitive, and that is the same ivory tower singularity that caused the educational mess we are in.
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JOIN THE CANON
OF ART SPRING |
BENTO BOX MURAKAMI
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A FIGHT WITH GRAVITY
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GATES OF HELL
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STAIRCASE TO NOWHERE
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20TH CENTURY BOX
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IMMIGRANT OR REFUGEE
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HTH DERMTECH
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MASTER TO MASTER
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PHYS-NEWTON
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GRAPHIC NOVEL
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THE NEW PATH
OF THE BUDDHA |
GET BENT
THE STRAIN IN ART
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ECONOMICS ILLUSTRATED
A BITE OUT OF THE NORTON SIMON
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THE BLOOD BANK PROJECT
ANALOG FLASH FOR WINDOWS
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CALCULICIOUS
WHO IS YOUR MASTER?
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