Project/ Problem Based Learning Hawaii
(Draft) Lulu
Why Project/ Problem Based Learning Hawaii:
1. Importance of Project/ Problem based learning and side effect of timeline based learning.
2. Hawaii special location: diversity, division, indigene, immigration, drug, homeless, military, etc.
3. John Burns School and NASA program are focusing on natural sciences, with a space for creativities in Art and social sciences.
Potential Research Direction:
Qualitative Data Analysis in Cross-Cultural
Future Studies
Curriculum for Documentary Production (K6-12)
Computer Society/ Computers and Education
Students Government
Purpose
Develop the PBL Curriculums for recent social problems/ injustice in communities in Hawaii
Promote the PBL in k-12 in Hawaii, as well as to the Asian/Pacific region.
Develop online PBL curriculum website, with Google translation engine, RSS news automatic update from the PBL frontier around the world, Web 2.0 implication to MySpace and FaceBook for networking.
Social Networking through website
Promote University of Hawaii - Student Government in State of Hawaii
Research on Computer Society, Computers and Education, Education system Modeling
1. Documentary as Problem/ Project Based Learning (K6-12):
Why documentary/filming?
a. oral history documentary
b. discovery the truth and history through experiencing
c. Involves in writing, drawing, communicating, researching, leadership, managing, public speaking, interviewing, video tapping, editing and marketing, etc.
d. Critical thinking
e. solving social problems with the power from younger generations
Doable documentary project right now:
1) Sovereignty issue:
(http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/03/us/03hawaii.html?ref=us )
Working as group, student will interview local Hawaiian to explore the history of Hawaii, make documentary for the sovereignty issue, speak out the bitterness and injustice through the documentary, as well as to make peace as and communicate as an intercessor. As presenting in front of communities and schools, the group will be evaluated with the feedback form created by them.
2) Poverty: homeless
Working as group, student will interview the homeless, donate the food and clothes, have conversation with homeless, explore the various reasons of the poverty, explore the deeper understanding of life and society and make documentary for the homeless people. As presenting in front of communities and school, the group will be evaluated with the feedback form created by them.
3) Interview Successful Women Leaders – Annual International Women Leadership Conference at Oahu can be the best resource
Working as group, student will interview the successful women leaders in different area, and make a film of Island Success. As presenting in front of communities and school, the group will be evaluated with the feedback form created by them.
4) Drug Issue
Most of Homeless are with drug addiction history. Working as group, students will interview the people who have been in addiction and successfully conquered drug addiction. Student will explore the reason people take drugs and the consequence of drug addiction. . As presenting in front of communities and school, the group will be evaluated with the feedback form created by them.
Other potential topics: Women Leaders, NASA, immigrants, abuse centers, success business people, senators …
2. Teach and Lead - It’s not the dumbest generation!
It’s just a sad to see most of administrators consider MySpace, blogger and other web 2.0 are evil. ETEC is the program to equip school to educate, but it will be easier to let the students to teach teachers and teachers’ job is to teach students to teach and lead.
Conference: Equip ETEC Educators to teach students how to teach using myspace, blog, and other web 2.0 tools.
PBLHI will develop the models, recourses, curriculums for attendees to equip students to teach and lead, focus on Web 2.0. (“Will offer” means I believe there are recourses out there but I need to research and collect a.s.a.p.)
3. Online Project/problem based learning curriculum developing.
E-learning pedagogy.
4. Global projects for global citizens.
5. Life long learning and communities.
NASA:http://www.higp.hawaii.edu/kaams/enter.html
Other PBL NGOs
State Government
Book Resource:
Bain, Ken. (2004). What The Best College Teachers Do. Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press
Dufy, Thomas M. and Kirkley, Jamie R. (2004) Learner-centered theory and practice in distance education : cases from higher education. Mahwah, N.J : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Kee, V. S. (2004). Teaching & learning through inquiry: A guidebook for institutions and instructors . Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing.
Kember, David. (2000) Action learning and action research : improving the quality of teaching and learning . London : Kogan Page ; Sterling, VA : Stylus Pub.
Savin-Baden, M. (2000). Problem-based learning in higher education: Untold stories . Philadelphia: Open University Press.
Savin-Badin, M. (2003). Facilitating problem-based learning: Illuminating perspectives . Philadelphia: Open University Press
Savin-Baden, M. & C. H. Major. (2004). Foundations of Problem-based learning. Philadelphia: Open University Press.
Schwartz, P., Mennin, S., & Webb, G. (2001). Problem-based learning: Case studies, experience and practice. Kogan Page.
Torp, L., & Sage, S. (2002). Problems as possibilities: Problem-based learning for K-16 education (2nd ed.) Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
Web Recourses
http://pblmm.k12.ca.us/index.html
http://www.qla.com.au/ : (Australia)
http://www.langfordlearning.com/ :
http://www.asdn.org/index.html : (Alaska Staff Development Network_
http://www.thedirectorintheclassroom.com/ : resource for filming and teaching
http://www.makeamovie.net/index2.html : resource for filming and teaching
http://www.highlandtech.org/ : PBL public school in Alaska
http://www.reinventingschools.org/
Universities with PBL centers:
University of Delaware’s PBL: http://www.udel.edu/pbl/
Maastricht University: http://www.unimaas.nl/pbl/
Stanford University CTL Center: http://ctl.stanford.edu/Newsletter/index.html
University of New Mexico TED center: http://hsc.unm.edu/som/TED/
Problem-Based Learning at the University of Cincinnati: http://www.uc.edu/pbl/index.shtml
PBL for Faculties in UCI: http://www.pbl.uci.edu/
Recourses in Hawaii:
http://ome.hawaii.edu/asia.htm
http://www.higp.hawaii.edu/kaams/enter.html
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