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=San Juan ITMC=

//Reinventing Project-Based Learning//
Section 3 - Navigating The Learning Experience Chapters 6 and 7

Chapters 6 and 7 deal specifically with guiding your students through a successful project. Concepts include Laying the Groundwork (student self assessment and reflection), Getting Minds Ready (promoting optimism and curiosity), Teaching Fundamentals First (building skills to make successful students), Preparing for Technology (creating strategies to teach and problem solve issues with technology), Promoting Inquiry and Deep Learning (questioning strategies) Building Information Literacy (thinking, not just looking) and Building Powerful Classroom and Colleague Conversations.

In order to help understand and identify elements of effective project-based lesson design, we will analyze an "exhibit" on the Apple Learning interchange. The project is available here:

@http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/story.php?itemID=642

Please review and discuss the project with your partner(s) and add to the the following pages (note: we will be employing a method known as Cafe or Round Robin) Find evidence of effective project-based lesson design for the selected project. Record your findings on each of the category pages.

We will be doing this work in timed "rounds". The first round will be a bit longer as you are just getting familiar with the project. The second round will be a bit shorter and then we will move into the "lightening rounds". Feel free to edit and add to findings that have been provided by other teams. The collective is more powerful than the individual!

Laying the Groundwork

Getting Minds Ready

Teaching Fundamentals First

Preparing for Technology

Promoting Inquiry and Deep Learning

Building Information Literacy

Building Powerful Classroom and Colleague Conversations