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Beyond Curiosity: Using PBL Strategies to Promote Deeper Thinking and Understanding Wouldnt it be awesome if you could create positive energy and positive awareness with purpose and intent rather than just wishing or hoping for them? What

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Beyond Curiosity: Using PBL Strategies to Promote Deeper Thinking and Understanding

Wouldn’t it be awesome if you could create positive energy and positive awareness with purpose and intent rather than just wishing or hoping for them?

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What needs to be present in order to learn and understand something?

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Students must be active participants. Do you let students plan projects? Do the students look at outcomes? Do students get a say in the products and investigations?

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To generate student’s deeper thinking:

Set the stage for inquiry
Make the environment safe for thinking - RQ

Technique?

Invite feedback - “I like” (strengths), “I wonder”

(weaknesses), “I have” (ideas, enhancements)

Think about thinking
Think as experts do
Watch for spirals

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Role of Questions

Thinking is driven by questions.
Need questions to turn on student’s

intellectual engines.

Teachers need to be seriously engaged in

thinking through or rethinking through their

wn subjects.

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PBL Best Practices

Significant Content
In-Depth Inquiry
Public Audience
Driving Question
Need to Know (Entry Event)

from the Buck Institute for Education

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Deeper Learning Competencies

Master core academic content
Think critically and solve complex problems
Work collaboratively
Communicate effectively
Learn how to learn
Develop academic mindsets

from “Deeper Learning Defined”

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Librarian = Facilitator

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Librarian = Facilitator

Constructs a driving/EQ with students
Facilitates process for generating student questions
Facilitates use and evaluation of resources
Provides guidance in response to students needs
Helps students apply learning to new tasks
Provides additional experiences to generate new

knowledge

Facilitates student reflection

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Librarian = Manager

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Librarian = Manager

Share projects goals with students
Use problem solving tools/skills
Use checkpoints and milestones
Plan for evaluations and reflection.

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Describe an orange.

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