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This updated edition of the bestselling Reinventing Project-Based Learning offers examples of the latest tools, assessment strategies and promising practices poised to shape education in the future.

This popular ISTE title follows the arc of a project, providing guided opportunities to direct and reflect educators' own learning and professional development. This book shows how to design authentic projects that make the most of available and emerging technologies.

This new edition: Provides examples of how to merge personalized learning, flipped classrooms, and PBL for effective teaching and learning. Includes coverage of computational thinking and coding, demonstrating ways to develop new approaches to solving problems as well as new forms of expression. Discusses PBL as an equity consideration, with opportunities for personalization and empowerment, addressing issues of social justice and closing the achievement gap. Includes coverage on new trends like augmented and virtual reality; and new and updated Spotlights from educators featured in the first edition and others. Features deeper focus on Gold Standard and High Quality PBL, the P21 Framework, and ISTE Standards for Students and Educators.
With this book, teachers will come to appreciate the importance of problem-finding and problem-posing -- thoughtful activity that needs to precede problem solving in any context.

The companion jump start guide based on this book is Project-Based Learning: Strategies and Tools for Creating Authentic Experiences .

Audience: K-12 classroom teachers, teacher educators

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• Introduction to the Third Edition(p. 1)
• Starting Your Journey(p. 3)
• Learning from PBL Scouts(p. 5)
• How to Use This Book: Turn It into Your Own Project(p. 6)
• Your Turn: Where Are You Starting?(p. 11)
• Section I Anticipation
• Chapter 1 Mapping the Journey-Seeing the Big Picture(p. 15)
• Side Trip: The Case for High-Quality PBL(p. 18)
• Side Trip: Lurk and Learn(p. 22)
• Teachers Are Learners, Too(p. 23)
• Spotlight: New Tech Network(p. 24)
• Getting Ready(p. 27)
• Your Investment(p. 30)
• What's Next?(p. 31)
• Technology Focus: Shared Research(p. 31)
• Your Turn: Start with the Big Picture(p. 33)
• Chapter 2 Finding Your Fellow Travelers(p. 35)
• Change Happens(p. 37)
• Spotlight: Changing Their Worldview(p. 41)
• School as a Learning Organization(p. 42)
• Spotlight: High Tech High(p. 44)
• Side Trip: Project-Tuning Protocol(p. 49)
• Communities within Communities(p. 52)
• Technology Focus: Online Communities(p. 54)
• How to Start?(p. 56)
• Get Your Feet Wet(p. 57)
• Your Turn: Reading Croup(p. 60)
• Section II Packing Up
• Chapter 3 Imagining the Possibilities(p. 63)
• What Is Most Important?(p. 64)
• What's the "Big idea"?(p. 65)
• Technology Focus: Create a Wiki(p. 66)
• Spotlight: Lanier Cluster, Gwinnett County, Georgia(p. 70)
• Planning for Rigor and Digital-Age Skills(p. 74)
• Digital-Age Literacies-A Synthesis(p. 75)
• Spotlight: Expanding interest in Computer Science(p. 81)
• Learning Dispositions(p. 85)
• Spotlight: Thinking Aloud about Learning Dispositions(p. 87)
• Keep Your Students in Mind(p. 87)
• Essential Learning with Digital Tools and the Web(p. 88)
• Your Turn: Develop a Conceptual Framework for Your Project(p. 91)
• Chapter 4 Strategies for Discovery(p. 93)
• Reviewing Projects(p. 95)
• Overcoming Pitfalls(p. 95)
• Designing Terrific Projects: Getting Started(p. 99)
• Side Trip: Project Design Resources(p. 101)
• The Best Projects Share Important Features(p. 102)
• Where Project Ideas Come From(p. 103)
• Technology Focus: Collect and Track Assets Online(p. 105)
• Spotlight: Science Leadership Academy(p. 106)
• Your Turn: Design Your Project(p. 107)
• Chapter 5 Making Assessment Meaningful(p. 111)
• Authentic Assessments in PBL(p. 112)
• Plan for Summative Assessment(p. 114)
• Plan for Formative Assessment(p. 127)
• Spotlight: Just-in-Time Feedback(p. 138)
• Technology Focus: Online Grade Books(p. 140)
• Your Turn: Review Work Samples(p. 141)
• Chapter 6 Project Management Strategies for Teachers and Learners(p. 143)
• Side Trip: Be Resourceful(p. 145)
• Gathering Resources: What (and Who) Will You Need?(p. 146)
• Spotlight: Creating Opportunities(p. 147)
• Spotlight: Fielding Inquiry(p. 149)
• Milestones and Deadlines: It's About Time(p. 150)
• Team Planning(p. 151)
• Spotlight: Teams That Maximize Results(p. 153)
• Technology Focus: Project Management with Technology(p. 153)
• Online Project Spaces(p. 156)
• Your Turn: Set Up a Project Space(p. 158)
• Section III Navigating the Learning Experience
• Chapter 7 Project Launch-Implementation Strategies(p. 161)
• Laying the Groundwork(p. 162)
• Get Minds Ready(p. 163)
• Ideas for Generating Interest and Promoting Inquiry(p. 165)
• Teach the Fundamentals First(p. 166)
• Prepare for Technology(p. 169)
• Technology Focus: Screencasting(p. 172)
• Promote Inquiry and Deep Learning(p. 175)
• Build toward Information and Media Literacy: Less Looking, More Thinking(p. 178)
• Technology Focus: Ripped from the Headlines(p. 180)
• Your Turn: How to Tell Your Story(p. 181)
• Chapter 8 A Guiding Hand-Keeping a Project Moving(p. 183)
• Make Classroom Discussions More Productive(p. 185)
• Spotlight: EL Education(p. 191)
• Optimize Technology(p. 194)
• Technology Focus: Podcasting(p. 197)
• Help with Troubleshooting(p. 198)
• Manage Conflict(p. 199)
• Your Turn: Analyze Your Classroom Conversations(p. 200)
• Section IV Expanding Your Circle
• Chapter 9 Building Connections and Branching Out(p. 203)
• Connecting with Experts(p. 205)
• Expanding the Learning Circle(p. 208)
• Technology Focus: Online Collaboration(p. 210)
• Communicating Findings(p. 211)
• Spotlight: Learning in Place(p. 212)
• Technology Focus: Tools to Build Geo-Literacy(p. 213)
• Spotlight: EAST; Technology-Powered Service(p. 215)
• Engage Community for Culminating Events(p. 218)
• Let Students Lead(p. 220)
• Extending the Benefits(p. 221)
• Your Turn: Where Next?(p. 222)
• Chapter 10 Celebrating and Reflecting(p. 223)
• Reflect on the Journey(p. 224)
• Plan Your Reflection Questions(p. 225)
• Elaborate: Where to Now?(p. 226)
• Build Tradition and Identity: "We Are the School Where Kids Get to ..."(p. 227)
• Technology Focus: Photo Sharing(p. 228)
• Celebrate!(p. 230)
• Display Student Work(p. 230)
• Year-in-Review Retrospective to Celebrate Learning(p. 230)
• Your Turn: Plan a Celebration(p. 231)
• Section V Unpacking
• Chapter 11 Bringing It Home(p. 235)
• Capitalize on Your Investment(p. 236)
• Critique with Colleagues(p. 237)
• Share Your Insights(p. 240)
• Become a Resource for Your Colleagues(p. 241)
• Enter a Contest(p. 241)
• Enjoy the Journey(p. 242)
• Your Turn: Join the Blogosphere or Twitterverse(p. 243)
• Chapter 12 On the Horizon: What's Next for PBL?(p. 245)
• Forecast: Demand Real-World, High-Quality Learning Experiences(p. 247)
• Forecast: More Opportunities to Build Teacher Capacity(p. 248)
• Forecast: Expand Access to Computational Thinking(p. 249)
• Forecast: Connect PBL with Global (and Local) Goals(p. 252)
• Forecast: Develop the PBL Mindset(p. 253)
• Forecast: Reconsider When and How Students Learn(p. 254)
• Forecast: Teachers Find More Ways to Learn Together(p. 255)
• A Final Story(p. 255)
• Appendix A Digital Tools for All Phases of the PBL Cycle(p. 259)
• Appendix B ISTE Standards for Students(p. 271)
• Appendix C Reading Group Guide: Questions for Discussion(p. 275)
• Appendix D Bibliography(p. 279)
• References(p. 279)
• Additional Readings(p. 285)
• Index(p. 287)

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Suzie Boss is a writer and educational consultant who focuses on the power of teaching and learning to improve lives and transform communities. She is the author of 10 books for educators, most recently All Together Now: How to Engage Your Stakeholders in Reimagining School and The Power of a Plant (co-authored with award-winning teacher Stephen Ritz). She contributes regularly to Edutopia and is a member of the national faculty of the Buck Institute for Education. A former teacher in Oregon schools, Jane Krauss divides her time between curriculum and program development for the National Center for Women Information Technology and professional development for project-based learning in the U.S. and internationally. In her previous role as director of professional development services at ISTE, Krauss managed programs and provided professional development on technology integration to educators around the world.