We're going to show you how to build your learning environment using the so-called Project-Based Learning approach.
Hey Readers,
You’ve probably heard of (or even used) Project-Based Learning.. still, we want to share the mini-workshop we’ve had with our community member, Kyle Wagner, who’s been in the field for 12 years.
Kyle brought us into a whole new game of designing a curriculum that certainly gives high value to students.
It unlocks the challenge of transforming students through your course and making them workforce-ready.
So here are the most important points from the workshop:
- No one has (or very few have) read the manual when learning to play a video game. We get into the game immediately. Why not apply this real-world scenario in your course design?
- Make your students “experience learning,” not just you teaching them lessons
- Doing a project is different from Project-Based Learning. As Kyle said, When the project guides the learning, the learning becomes natural and not forced.
- Start with asking your students the right questions and encourage them to ask open-ended questions
- Translate those questions into a course design, activities, or modules
- Define what kind of transformation does your students want after taking your course
- There are 8 Key Elements in using Project-Based Learning
Want to experience what I'm talking about? Watch this 50-min workshop below.
Until soon,
Y en J
Questions asked during the workshop:
- How does PBL help us teach or reconnect with human skills?
- How do I change a self-paced course to a cohort-based course?
- How to inculcate technology in the PBL approach?
- How to convince a school to change its structure into PBL?
Resources shared:
- 7 Key Elements in Project-Based Learning, the 8th was mentioned in the workshop
- David Lee teaching design thinking in Korea to elementary school kids
- School in the cloud
- Medford, Center for Citizenship and Social Responsibility
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