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Bike ride – video project
Warm up questions:

1. Do you like      spending time outdoors?

2. Do you enjoy      riding a bike/jogging/walking?

3. Where do you      usually go?

4. Who do you      usually go with?

5. Have you ever      experienced anything unusual during your bike ride …?

Lesson procedure – bike ride:

1. Lead-in – your      personal story.

2. Warm-up questions.

3. Video watching –      what happened next?

4. Group work –      students think about the plot.

5. Group      presentation – speaking/vocabulary extension.

6. Grammar review – narrative      tenses.

7. Story reading.

8. Video project:      students record their own videos.

9. Time: 1 week

10. Group presentations.

11. Students vote      for the best videos.

12. Group work –      writing a story: What happened next?

Cyberbullying – music clip:
´ Choose a song with meaningful lyrics

´ Set up a video project

´ Divide students into groups

´ Students prepare a scenario of a video which is based on the music clip

´ Help students with the scenes

´ Organise a film festival in your school and watch the final products together

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Lesson procedure – STORY/POEM:

1. Bring a story/poem

2. Read it to your students

3. Work on vocabulary

4. Group work

5. Scenario

6. Time: 2 weeks

7. Engage all students

8. Facebook group/Edmodo group

9. Youtube/Vimeo

10. School film festival

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Creating a video – tools and apps:
- Moovly

- Dvolver

- Kizoa.com

- iMovie

- Video

- Openshot.org

- Wevideo.com

- Get-puppet.coiosApp

- Windows Movie Maker
Free mobile apps for special effects:
Creature FX

Action Movie FX

Quo Movie FX

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PRE-PRODUCTION stage:

1. Set up a topic

2. Who/Where/When/What?

3. Prepare a script

4. Costumes/props

5. Actors – talents

6. Engage all students

7. Team leader

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Types of video projects:
- commercial

- documentary

- music video

- reality show

- storytelling

- animation

- story/poem

- class movie

- soap opera

- parody

- interview

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Why use video projects?
-  to motivate students to learn

- to inspire and engage students

- to develop 21st century skills

- technology skills

- critical thinking

- problem solving skills

- cooperative learning

- to offer a new way for students to explore their creative side

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In order to facilitate assessment, a PBL project ends up on presentation of learning. Presentations of learning should include what students learned about:

the subject matter content.

planning, organizing, and implementing a project.

how they learn.

how their group functioned.

how they work in a group.

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There are various types of final products and there can be more than one final products in a PBL project.

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Tasks/Activities:

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

While designing activities, please keep these elements in mind:

21st century skills – critical thinking, collaboration, communication, and creativity/innovation

In-Depth Inquiry – extended, rigorous process of asking questions, using resources, and developing answers

Need to Know – gain knowledge, understand concepts, and apply skills in order to answer the Driving Question and create final products

Voice and Choice – students make some choices about the products to be created, how they work, and how they use their time

Critique and Revision – students give and receive feedback on the quality of their work, leading them to make revisions

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Learning outcomes:

The teacher must be clear about his/her project idea and its objectives.

Discuss with the colleagues or with relevant people about your project idea

Think about all involved subjects and your target learning outcomes

After successfully writing the learning outcomes, move towards designing tasks/activities.

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Make sure that your 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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How to Write an Effective Driving Question?
FOR THE TEACHERS:

helps to initiate and focus the inquiry

captures and communicates the purpose of the project in a succinct question

it helps to guide planning and reframe standards or big content and skills

FOR THE STUDENTS:

It creates interest and a feeling of challenge

It guides the project work

It helps student answer the question: "Why are we doing this?"

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How to Get Projects Off to a Good Start

Setting up a project for success is actually fairly easy with a little forethought and structure
1. Do some homework
2. Set up a basic plan
3. Recruit people
4. Establish clear expectations
5. Create communication protocol

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Steps to Planning Projects:

1. Choose a topic & time frame

2. Pick your concepts

3. Level of technology & product

4. Develop rubric

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A PBL project must be integrated and multidisciplinary

Minimum 2-3 subjects

Start with a small project

Designing and implementing small projects will help you more to understand the effectiveness of project-based learning.

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How to get a project idea?

1. 1. The “Ah Ha” moment - something that will catch attention

2. Driving Question - create a driving question that would result in a real world product

3. Critical Thinking and Research

4. Collaboration

5. Communication and Sharing - The abilities of kindergartners are not limited to crayons and textbooks

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What makes a PBL project powerful?

A lesson or a project which is designed as per the interests or the nature of children

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Life skills taught at school - a real challenge!!!
It seems we’re pushing children through the same curriculum our grandparents went through, without trying to adapt to the needs of society. What if we try???

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How School Trains Us To Fail In The Real World:

memorize information,

Schools teach knowledge, but life requires wisdom

School  — A place where students suck on an information teat instead of learning how to feed themselves,

School is an unsuitable learning environment for many jobs

Grades distort our perception of reality.

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21st Century Education it's all about

projects where students works together and share the succes,

first teachers learn how a good teaching looks like and work with 21st skills in practice

professional development and colaboration

analize the assessment

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The 4C's:

Collaboration and teamwork

Creativity and imagination

Critical thinking & problem solving

Communication

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Project-based learning/Traditional project

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The best pedagogy to teach STEM or STE(A)M is project-based learning because:

Real-World, authentic problems, and contexts

Interdisciplinary approach

Skills needed for success in the workplace

I might add here:

the need of  complexe training for teachers

to be in touch with other teachers

the need to be well aware with the development of society.

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The ideea of STEM - interdisciplinary -  is alredy use in the Romanian kindergarten curriculum under the name of integrated projects where  science, mathematics, arts or languages are together applied.
On top of that in Education Act the purpose of schooling is that the grown adult to be prepared for labour market.
I never been to a course whith real apllication (like padlet), and I find it very interesting to be part of this one. Hope I make it!!!

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Althought this course is for pimary, middle and high school teachers I find it quite interesting even for kindergarten teachers because in day care the childrens begin to discover the world, a world in wich they will live. In romanian Education act the purpose of the school is that the childrens to adapt to the society and labour market, so I think this course will help me.