Information Processing Family

Project Based Learning

Project Based Learning

• shifts emphasis away from teacher centered to Student.
• Includes: investigative activities, problem solving, design, decision making, etc.
• Includes artifact construction to represent what is learned.
• 4 stages of Inquiry: Searching, Solving, Creating, Sharing.

Project Based Learning Example

• 1920's March Madness Bracket Challenge.
• Students research specific components of Icons from the 1920's and complete 1 mini project for each round.
• Student's mission is to convince us that their Icon is the Icon of the decade!
• Must research their Icon and report to us in various ways what makes them important, what they contributed, social influence, political views, etc.

Inquiry Learning

Inquiry Learning

• Involves a learning cycle model in lesson planning.
• Engage: Present questions, issues, or problems to students.
• Explore: gather, organize, interpret, analyze, evaluate data.
• Explain: Learner clarifies understandings discovered, reaches conclusions or generalizes and communicates in various modes

Inquiry Learning

• Expand: Learner applies these conclusion or generalizations to solve problems, make decisions, perform tasks, resolve conflicts, or make meaning.
• Evaluation: Students assess their knowledge skills and abilities developed in this process.
• Students are the active participants in the process of learning.
• Teachers take on a role of facilitator by supporting content learning.

Inquiry Learning Example

• Asks students various questions about the content they are learning.
• Allow students to Pair-Share answers fist
• Then have students share answers, teacher asks follow up questions as needed.

Socratic Dialouge

Socratic Dialouge

• Ask students open ended controversial topics.
• Students will think critically about difficult topics and voice their opinion in an open discussion.
• Teacher will start discussion and help to keep in on track.
• Students will have to elaborate and clarify their contributions as the disucssion goes on.

Socratic Dialogue Example

• Students will debate women's suffrage through the lens of an American in 1920.
• They will have to research the topic beforehand and be prepared to debate one particular side.