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IT'S NOT THAT I'M SO SMART,
IT'S JUST THAT I STAY WITH PROBLEMS LONGER

Albert Einstein

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Module 2. Q1 My first TLA in Learning Designer

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Module 2. Q1 My first TLA in Learning Designer

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https://v.gd/9yR6BJ

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to think through and support your students’ learning

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Tool for creating groups

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FCS | Module 1 | Tool for Teaching: TeamUp

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5 strategies for fostering a collaborative culture in a PBL classroom

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5 strategies for fostering a collaborative culture in a PBL classroom

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5 Strategies for Fostering a Collaborative Culture in a PBL Classroom

As a middle school teacher I understand that my students are at a developmental crossroads. They want to be seen as independent, responsible adults but at the same time still need guidance in order to be successful. This makes this age both challenging and rewarding to work with, as it allows me as a teacher to help them as they become the independent students they see themselves to be.

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5 Strategies for Fostering a Collaborative Culture in a PBL Classroom

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5 Strategies for Fostering a Collaborative Culture in a PBL Classroom As a middle school teacher I understand that my students are at a developmental crossroads. They want to be seen as independent, responsible adults but at the same time still need guidance in order to be successful.

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I have changed my driving question following the suggestion of Cristina Parente. Actually it is better now. Thank you Cristina :)

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An article of J. Larmer and J.R. Mergendoller, in BIE, 2010

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Five keys to rigorous project-based learning

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Five keys to rigorous project-based learning

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5 Keys to Rigorous Project-Based Learning

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"A key goal of PBL is not the project but rather the process of building the project" (in: 2.2 What is effective collaboration?)

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1. Learning Designer

2. Collaboration - WeJIT

3. Planning - creating rubrics - RubiStar

4. Interacting with groups -meeting feedback - Metimeter

5.  Do cool stuff with digital photos - BigHugeLabs

6. A tool for making presentation - Prezi

7. Buck Institute for Education

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How can we use energy of our local river to light up the local road, making it economically profitable?
This question could be suitable for students in the second class of gym (15 years old students) in physics because of a main reason: learning standards (energy, light, measuring).
Main goals of the project are:
- learn about energy (kind of energy, transformation of energy)
- measuring energy of flowing water in the river
- calculaing energy used by street lights
- knowing the price of energy
- how to find sources of information about costs of energy for lightning up local roads
Project needs many activities of biger group of people, that are required to collaborate to achieve the answer.
The question is open-ended and absolutely non-Googleable.

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The most challenging key elements of PBL for me:
1. project should be student driven - my students are not used to work in this way
2. multifaceted assessment - the students have been assesed by teacher always to this time

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Because the problem looks like meeting the fundamental criteria for good PBL project (may be ?) the next question is:  in which class to implement it?
Taking into account the curriculum (physics, third educational level) and overall skills of students the best choice would be the second class of gym.

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I have never used PBL. I think it's: 1) dificult, 2) students should be in some way prepared to this method, 3) school stuff (management) should support teacher who wants to teach this way.
These are the first reflections, but it's quite sure that there are more problems.
I might summarize my first impression graphically:

May be for the first time for my students it would be good to choose some problem concerning energy: how to take advantages of existing waterfalls on our local small river to produce elektricity?

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My school is a lower-secondary school where students are in the age of 11 - 16. There are circa 250 students in my school and 20 teachers. In one class there attend 118 students in average. We use in our work many ICT tools, for example e-daily lesson with all teaching documentation, e-learning platform: Moodle and so on. We have 3 multimedia boards in the classrooms, one classroom with 10 compters. There is a cable net and wifi in all the school. I have also 2 hours estra classes in the school astronomy club, which has got a small newtonian telescope.

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I am a teacher of physics, ICT and maths. I graduated Silesian University in Katowice and got Master degree in Physics. My master thesis was on quantum logic. Ca 15 years ago I finished my postgraduate studies in ICT and 5 years later maths postgraduate studies in Jagiellonian Universuty in Cracow. I learn all the time, because I have great interest in science and it is developing so fast nowadays that it is not possible to stop follow if you like to be in touch. Besides I like it much. And I would like to share my interests with my students.
Below is one small example of one of my many interests.
My picture of todays huge sunspot, made with my students.
Updated 16 June 2016