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What activities can students do during project-based learning?

1. Mini lessons

2. Workshops

3. Discussions

4. Written responses and reflections

5. Research

6. Creating a model

7. Labs

8. Experiments

9. Simulations

10. Creating/Adding to a final product

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module 3.4 Elements of the project planner 

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module 3.4 Elements of the project planner 

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module 3.5                    How to Get Projects Off to a Good Start

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module 3.5                    How to Get Projects Off to a Good Start

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Once the project is designed, find some interesting idea for the entry event. It could be a video, a picture, or teacher can tell a story. Project design has enough opportunities for students to experience skills. At-least 2 or more skills from 4C's should be integrated in a PBL project.

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A PBL project must be integrated and multidisciplinary. Minimum 2-3 subjects are recommended to be included and if you can include more subjects in a project, it will become more interesting.

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Module 3.2                     How to get a project idea? 

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Module 3.2                     How to get a project idea? 

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Make a list of problems and challenges within your community and see what can be solved or at least spread awareness in the community to solve those problems with the solution that your students find out after working on the project for an extended period.

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Module 3.1                    What makes a PBL project powerful? 

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Module 3.1                    What makes a PBL project powerful? 

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The contemporary classroom can be rather different than what we were used to even just a decade ago, thanks partly to the advancing nature of Internet based technologies. One form of teaching which has benefited from these types of tools is Project Based Learning. A main goal of project-based learning for students is to make the process of putting theory into practice easier.

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Write what did you learn in the video in module 2.2 "The Four C's: Making 21st Century Education Happen:"?
4 Cs: communication, collaboration, critical thinking and creativity are all vital to a thriving learning environment to prepare students for the future. technology is only a tool and its the content that is important. How the teacher uses it is important because technology does not reach every student to critically think. Everyone learns in a different way.

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What are the 21st-century skills? Do you think these are just about computer and technology?

21st Century skills are:

1. Critical thinking

2. Creativity

3. Collaboration

4. Communication

5. Information literacy

6. Media literacy

7. Technology literacy

8. Flexibility

9. Leadership

10. Initiative

11. Productivity

12. Social skills

These skills are intended to help students keep up with the lightning-pace of today’s modern markets. Each skill is unique in how it helps students, but they all have one quality in common.

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21st-century skills are also known as 4C’s of 21st-century skills. Please watch the following videos to learn more about the 4C’s.
Introduction to the 4C’s: https://youtu.be/lNVQNz2Hto8
The Four C's: Making 21st Century Education Happen:

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What are the 21st-century skills? Do you think these are just about computer and technology?
The answer depends on who we ask.
But a Hanover Research report, A Crosswalk of 21st Century Skills, sort out the answer. The research analyzed some major educational frameworks (around 6 frameworks) which are designed to improve the development of these skills.
Each research has a slightly different list of skills. However, all are agreed that four skills are necessary to teach.

Collaboration and teamwork

Creativity and imagination

Critical thinking & problem solving

Communication

We cannot prepare the students for college and workplace without helping to build these skills in them. Students will not be able to successfully succeed in the global economy without these skills. The approach to learning “project-based learning” is the most adequate method of teaching by which; we not just prepare students to solve problems in the real-world and face challenges, but we can also successfully build these skills.
In module 3 “Designing a PBL project”, we will discuss how to integrate 21st-century and other necessary skills, such as; literacy and life skills in a high-quality PBL project.

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How School Trains Us To Fail In The Real World:
Instead of learning critical life skills on how to manage money, how to negotiate, or how to communicate, kids are mostly taught to memorize information. This is helpful to learn, but not at the cost of not learning critical life skills…………….
Read here the full article explaining the importance of skills:
https://medium.com/the-mission/how-school-trains-us-to-fail-in-the-real-world-a67f6ed69be5

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Why aren’t life skills taught at school?

(Blog by SARAH at www.seekteachers.com)

Think of the time you left school. Did you feel prepared to face the world? Did you know how to write a CV? Open a bank account? Rent an apartment or apply for a credit card?  There is a high chance you had to figure this information out on your own through trial and error or even by asking family and friends. Chances are school never taught you these “life skills” 

. What are schools teaching then? Apparently they are teaching the same old subjects. It seems we’re pushing children through the same curriculum our grandparents went through. The question does not only lie on whether this curriculum is outdated but on the practically and utility it presents in the 21st century. Is the material being taught put to use in the “real world”? If no, they why do we learn it? Are schools lazy that they refuse to change to what seems to have been “working” so far? When I finished school, the math I had learned seemed to be completely unrelated to the math I was intended to use in my daily living. Did I know how to write a good CV? Not really. However, I did know how to write a critical essay on Lord of the flies.

We cannot really blame it on the teachers. There are good teachers and there are bad teachers but unfortunately, they seem to all be stuck in a bad system. Hence, why many teachers leave the profession because the teaching methodology , assessment criteria, and overall curriculum does not fulfill the expectations they had of changing the world when they commenced teaching. Some teachers aim to teach life skills or incorporate it into a fun lesson and they are promptly reminded that it isn’t part of the curriculum. I was one of those teachers. My students were hungry and eager to learn life skills. They asked me to teach them. They said the curriculum was boring. This made sense. They want to learn about the world that they see and experience every day. They don’t experience the world of “Pi=3.14” every day so of course they aren’t thrilled to learn about it. They wanted to learn how to save money, how to invest etc. Can we really blame them? This is a generation of students who witnessed their parents forfeit their mortgage, lose their jobs and die without life insurance. Many students ask how to get rich “fast”. While there isn’t a magical formula, it would have been nice to learn about compound interest in elementary school to put away your allowance so that by the time you retired you had your own personal fund.  How about “learning to learn”. Learning true “learning skills” that you can apply to learn a new language, study for an exam or teach yourself something of true importance. While teaching high school, I realised many of the students didn’t’ have a clue how to study or learn. They had no learning skills. They came from the same system I came from. Memorize, repeat and vomit. Application and connections to the real world were scarce.

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Why aren’t life skills taught at school?

(Blog by SARAH at www.seekteachers.com)

Think of the time you left school. Did you feel prepared to face the world? Did you know how to write a CV? Open a bank account? Rent an apartment or apply for a credit card?  There is a high chance you had to figure this information out on your own through trial and error or even by asking family and friends. Chances are school never taught you these “life skills” 

. What are schools teaching then? Apparently they are teaching the same old subjects. It seems we’re pushing children through the same curriculum our grandparents went through. The question does not only lie on whether this curriculum is outdated but on the practically and utility it presents in the 21st century. Is the material being taught put to use in the “real world”? If no, they why do we learn it? Are schools lazy that they refuse to change to what seems to have been “working” so far? When I finished school, the math I had learned seemed to be completely unrelated to the math I was intended to use in my daily living. Did I know how to write a good CV? Not really. However, I did know how to write a critical essay on Lord of the flies.

We cannot really blame it on the teachers. There are good teachers and there are bad teachers but unfortunately, they seem to all be stuck in a bad system. Hence, why many teachers leave the profession because the teaching methodology , assessment criteria, and overall curriculum does not fulfill the expectations they had of changing the world when they commenced teaching. Some teachers aim to teach life skills or incorporate it into a fun lesson and they are promptly reminded that it isn’t part of the curriculum. I was one of those teachers. My students were hungry and eager to learn life skills. They asked me to teach them. They said the curriculum was boring. This made sense. They want to learn about the world that they see and experience every day. They don’t experience the world of “Pi=3.14” every day so of course they aren’t thrilled to learn about it. They wanted to learn how to save money, how to invest etc. Can we really blame them? This is a generation of students who witnessed their parents forfeit their mortgage, lose their jobs and die without life insurance. Many students ask how to get rich “fast”. While there isn’t a magical formula, it would have been nice to learn about compound interest in elementary school to put away your allowance so that by the time you retired you had your own personal fund.  How about “learning to learn”. Learning true “learning skills” that you can apply to learn a new language, study for an exam or teach yourself something of true importance. While teaching high school, I realised many of the students didn’t’ have a clue how to study or learn. They had no learning skills. They came from the same system I came from. Memorize, repeat and vomit. Application and connections to the real world were scarce.

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Module 1.6            Traditional project or a PBL project

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Module 1.6            Traditional project or a PBL project

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Some people confused project-based learning with traditional project. Here are some differences to learn whether it is a traditional project or a PBL project.

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Module 1.5                     PBL  and STEAM Education: 

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The best pedagogy to teach STEM or STE(A)M is project-based learning.
STEM Project-Based Learning (PBL) requires a professional teaching force empowered with the skills necessary for designing learning experiences that maximize student potential. Therefore, effective STEM PBL requires teachers to experience high quality professional development to learn how to design high quality experiential learning activities.

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Module 1.4                   What is STEM Education? 

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At it’s most basic, STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. Alternatively, STEAM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math. But STEM education is far more than just sticking those subject titles together. It’s a philosophy of education that embraces teaching skills and subjects in an a way that resembles real life.
With STEM we are teaching skills the way they will be used in the workforce, and the real world. Rarely does a job require only one skill set like math. Picture an architect, they use science, math, engineering and technology to do their jobs.
https://www.livescience.com/43296-what-is-stem-education.html

Three Little Pigs STEAM Activity

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Module 1.3          Introduction to project-based learning (PBL)

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Module 1.3          Introduction to project-based learning (PBL)

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PBL is becoming widely used in schools and other educational settings, with different varieties being practiced. However, there are key characteristics that differentiate "doing a project" from engaging in rigorous Project Based Learning.

We find it helpful to distinguish a "dessert project" -  a short, intellectually-light project served up after the teacher covers the content of a unit in the usual way - from a "main course" project, in which the project is the unit. In Project Based Learning, the project is the vehicle for teaching the important knowledge and skills student need to learn. The project contains and frames curriculum and instruction.

In contrast to dessert projects, PBL requires critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration, and various forms of communication. To answer a Driving Question and create high-quality work, students need to do much more than remember information. They need to use higher-order thinking skills and learn to work as a team.

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Working together, training new approaches, looking at problems in a new ideas, sharing in group once in a week.

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Module 1.2  (Optional)           Createing  Padlet 

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Module 1.2  (Optional)           Createing  Padlet 

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Padlet is an online virtual “bulletin” board, where students and teachers can collaborate, reflect, share links and pictures, in a secure location. You can writing from your hobby to your career, your class notes , your mood board to your runway show, padlets help you organize your life.