Project Based Learning A mini project to explore the project process

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Project Based Learning

Challenge

Concept based learning is about big transferable ideas that transcend time, place, situation. Content just focuses on facts while concepts focus on making sense of those facts and the world around us. (Moving Beyond the Page 2016) “A Threshold Concept … opens up a new and previously inaccessible way of thinking about something. It represents a transformed way of understanding, or interpreting, or viewing… This transformation may be … troublesome.”  (Meyer and Land 2013) Threshold Concepts

Examples of Threshold Concepts

Big Ideas

Essential Questions Deep, searching questions which lead to debate and discussion. When did South African history start? Does it undermine students’ understanding of Maths to let them make use of technology? (Dan Meyer) Does it make sense to teach European and American literature in South Africa today?

Gathering Information

Data Sources Own Research Reading Books Web bit.ly/saescsurvey

Process

Processing Data: Pivot Table

Present

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