+ Challenge Based Learning Instructor: John Martincic Lincoln Magnet School/Nichole Heyen

+ What are you going to learn. Welcome to Challenge Based Learning. For the next two hours you will be introduced to your new learning environment. You will be introduced to all of the tools that you will be using in this course, and tips to help you be a successful student. We will start the class by introducing what are goals for today are. To help teachers teach students how to understand the Big Idea, develop essential questions, and write guiding questions To work with teachers and administrators to teach them how to develop the curriculum for Challenge Based Learning To develop a Challenge based learning project, for each grade level at LMS

+ What is Challenge Based Learning? Click on this link to see what CBL is all about. Once the teams go over the key ideas of a CBL they will watch webcast. learning/#cbl-video learning/#cbl-video After watching this video the team will then have a basic understanding of what a CBL is.

+ Examples of CBL Projects. Improving water quality: Sustainability: Reducing paper waste during lunch:

+ Evaluate all three projects What did they do well? What could they have done differently? How were they the same? How were they different? As teachers: What is our role?

+ Selecting our Big Idea Every challenge starts with the selection of a big idea — a broad topic that has importance to students and their community. Topics like democracy, the environment, or sustainability. Using Safari on a Mac, staff can browse the web to quickly define and better understand their big idea. Once the group decides on the Big Idea they can move onto the next step.

+ Essential Questions Staff will explore their big idea by asking questions that reflect their individual interests and community’s needs. A simple way for staff to keep their questions organized is with Pages. This streamlined word processor and page layout tool is included in iWork — a powerful suite of applications for creating amazing documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. As the staff develops their essential questions they will also be completing a storyboard along the way in order to have a visual representation of their work.

+ Challenge From the essential questions a challenge is developed to guide staff toward a real-world solution. Like, let’s improve what we eat, our neighborhood, or pollution in the vacant lots.. OS X Lion Server can help staff collaborate and communicate throughout the challenge by ensuring safe and secure access to , chat, calendars, wikis, blogs, and more. Documenting the process is also key. With iPod touch or iPhone 4, staff can record audio and shoot HD video of themselves in action and on the go. All staff will provided with a flip camera as well as a tripod to record everything they do.

+ Guiding Questions and Activities To meet their challenge, students need to ask guiding questions. What exactly do we eat? What is happening to the neighborhood that we can stop? To find answers, teachers work with students to identify guiding activities they can do at school and in their community. Students can interview people about their diets via FaceTime* and analyze nutritional data in Numbers — the easy-to-use application for creating spreadsheets included in iWork.

+ Guiding Resources Students take advantage of websites, podcasts, apps, audiobooks, and other resources to help answer guiding questions and develop solutions. iTunes U provides instant access to some of the world’s best thinking for free — including lectures, videos, and articles from hundreds of distinguished universities, libraries, museums, and news organizations. And with iPad, they can find what they need anytime, anywhere.

+ Solutions, Implementation, and Reflection With their research complete, staff choose one solution to develop. In this example, creating a school garden. To showcase their thinking, they can build engaging slideshows in Keynote — the presentation application in iWork. Once the solution is approved, students implement it in the real world. The challenge is now complete and can be shared via a video made in iMovie or a website built in iWeb — apps included in iLife, the creativity suite that comes with every Mac. At the end of each challenge, students reflect on the entire process to help deepen their learning and enrich future projects.

+ Completion Once the teams have developed their CBL’s they will swap them with another group for peer feedback. By looking at others work will help the teams to see if they want to make some changes. Next staff will complete two different types of evaluations on their training.

+ Sources Apple in Education, 2012, learning/ learning/