2. Project Based Learning
A mini project to explore the project process

3. bit.ly/saescsurvey Challenge Question
If you were minister of education, where would you start in changing SA education?
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4. Project Based Learning

5. Challenge

6. 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

7. Examples of Threshold Concepts

8. Big Ideas

9. 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?

10. Gathering Information

11. Data Sources
Own Research
Reading
Books
Web
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12. Process

13. Processing Data: Pivot Table

14. Present

15. A Real Audience
Peers
Community
Virtual