Challenge+(Project)+Based+Learning



Challenge (Project) Based Learning (CBL) makes learning relevant by giving kids problems big enough so that they have to learn new ideas and tools to solve them, but immediate enough so that they care deeply that solutions are found. Young people want to solve real problems, and that is exactly what challenge based learning is designed to do — give students and teachers a framework that makes learning relevant, and then let them dive in. 1

The CBL Framework 2


 * Big Idea
 * Essential Question
 * Challenge (Focused on a Verb: Change, Improve Save, etc.)
 * Guiding Questions, Activities & Resources
 * Solution
 * Implementation
 * Evaluation - Students evaluate the effectiveness of their Solution/Implementation)
 * Informative Assessment
 * Documentation and Publishing
 * Reflection & Dialogue

**Big Idea** > <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The big idea is a broad concept that can be explored in multiple ways, is engaging, and has importance to students and the larger society, Examples of big ideas are Identity, Sustainability, Creativity, Violence, Peace and Power.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">** Essential Question ** > <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">By design, the big idea allows for the generation of a wide variety of essential questions that should reflect the interests of the students and the needs of their community.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #565656; display: block; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Geneva,sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**The Challenge** > <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">From each essential question a challenge is articulated that asks students to create a specific answer or solution that can result in concrete, meaningful action.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">** Guiding Questions ** > <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Generated by the students, these questions represent the knowledge students need to discover to successfully meet the challenge and create a map to guide the learning process.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">** Guiding Activities & Resources ** > <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">These lessons, simulations, games, and other types of activities use a variety of resources to help students answer the guiding questions and set the foundation for them to develop innovative, insightful, and realistic solutions.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">** Solution ** > <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Each challenge is stated broadly enough to allow for a variety of solutions. Each solution should be thoughtful, concrete, actionable, clearly articulated, and presented in a publishable multimedia format such as an enhanced podcast or short video.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #565656; display: block; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Geneva,sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Evaluation** > <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The teams gauge the success of the solution during the implementation process. They identify the causes of there success and or failure and determine changes that could be made to improve the solution

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">** Document & Reflect ** > <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Throughout the process, the students should document their work and reflect on the process. Much of the deepest learning takes place by considering the process, thinking about one’s own learning, analyzing ongoing relationships with the content and between concepts, interacting with other people, and developing a solution. Blogs, video, podcasts, digital storytelling, and photographs are all great ways to document and reflect on the process.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">** Publish ** > <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Students should be encouraged to publish their work in a variety of locations. One way for students to publish is to create a short video about their solution and share it locally or post it online for broader visibility.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">** Evidence of Learning **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">K-20 Implementation
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">73% of students reported that they realized they could be a leader
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">79% of teachers reported that the students had mastered the content
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">High documentation of students meeting goals of 21st Century Skills

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Process Outline:<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 70%; vertical-align: super;">3

 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Concept Development
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Determine curriculum targets
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Find the "Big Idea" or Essential Question
 * Relevant
 * Requires Deep Content Knowledge
 * Can be developed from local, national, or global news and events
 * School or Community Issues
 * Questions should be answerable and focused
 * Can be developed by the teacher and/or student
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Define the Challenge
 * "Call-to-Action"
 * Actionable by the students
 * Be sure it is the "right size" for managing
 * Establish a timeframe
 * Ensure it is meaningful
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Identify a basic set of guiding resources
 * Students should add resources
 * Identify community or outside partnerships
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Establish the Working Environment
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Be sure proper tools and resources are available
 * technology, including storage for developed media
 * promote proper time-management
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Consider the physical workspace
 * where kids will prepare/produce
 * where kids will ultimately present
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Create the teams - either assigned or student generated
 * Reinforce that each group is responsible for its own research, solution, implementation, analysis, and final product
 * Discuss student roles: leader, technologist, researcher, writers, photographers, videographers, actors, "set" designer
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Define the requirements for the Final Product
 * Should demonstrate what the students have learned about the topic
 * Documents the process and actions taken to get to the solution
 * Students have clearly demonstrated mastery
 * Digital Assets that are electronically publishable and provide opportunities for feedback
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Define Assessment Strategies
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Develop on-going, sustainable rubrics that assess content knowledge, "real world" skills, students' roles
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Provide formative and summative assessment with rich feedback and reflection
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Feedback should be from peers, teachers, experts
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Include a Self-Assessment Component

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Helpful Links: 2 ** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Challenge Based Learning Report: @http://images.apple.com/education/docs/NMC_CBLi_Report_Oct_2011.pdf <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> TPACK Info is here: @http://www.tpck.org/tpck/index.php?title=Main_Page <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Partnership for 21st Century Skills is here: @http://www.p21.org/ <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Apple, Inc Challenge Based Learning: @http://www.apple.com/education/challenge-based-learning <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Challenge Based Learning: http://www.challengebasedlearning.org <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> CBL Tools for students by Andrew Halter: http://tools4students.wikispaces.com/ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Design your own or download Buck Institute's Tubric for designing essential questions: [|Tubric]

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">** Dr. Ruben Puentedura's Links: 2 ** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> • Hippasus: @http://www.hippasus.com/ <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> • SAMR Content: @http://www.hippasus.com/rrpweblog/archives/000041.html <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> • SAMR Presentation in iTunes: As We May Teach: Educational Technology, From Theory Into Practice <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> • MLTI References to Ruben's work can be found here.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">1) Johnson, L. and Adams, S., (2011). Challenge Based Learning: The Report from the Implementation Project. Austin, Texas: The New Media Consortium.
====<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">2) Little, Matthew, Peter Oyler, and Apple, Inc. "CBL Take Action Make a Difference." Pete & C 2012. Hershey Lodge, Hershey. 14 Feb. 2012. Lecture. ==== ====<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">3) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;"> Brinson, Jennifer. "Challenge Based Learning." //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Salisbury High School Instructional Tools //. Jennifer Brinson. Web. 15 Feb. 2012. <http://shsinstructionaltools.stsd.wikispaces.net/home>. ====