Explorers in a New World:

1. Explorers in a New World: Using Technology and Problem-Based Learning to prepare students to navigate the future

2. Applied Learning: Core Principals and Examples Curriculum Design Tools Pedagogical Foundations

3. What might learning be like? • Imagine a powerful classroom in the future: • What tasks are students doing? • What tools are they using? • What interactions are they having: • With each other? • With the tools? • With the world beyond school?

4. Applied Learning: Asks students to learn curriculum content and to use what they learn in solving a problem or fulfilling a genuine need.

5. Core characteristics: • Engaging learning environments • “School-to-life” preparation • Transferable skill development

6. Core characteristics: • Engaging learning environments • Connections to world beyond school

7. Core characteristics: • Engaging learning environments • Connections to world beyond school • Multiple approaches and solutions

8. Core characteristics: • Engaging learning environments • Connections to world beyond school • Multiple approaches and solutions • High stakes tasks and audiences

9. Core characteristics: • Engaging learning environments • Connections to world beyond school • Multiple approaches and solutions • High stakes tasks and audiences • Democratic decision making

10. Core characteristics: • Authentic Instruction • “School-to-life” preparation • Transferable skill development

11. Core characteristics: • Authentic Instruction • “School-to-life” preparation • Transferable skill development

12. Essential Elements of Applied Learning Projects Comprehensive Assessment Compelling Purpose Clearly Named Standards Valued Product Community Connections

13. Essential Elements of Applied Learning Projects Comprehensive Assessment Compelling Purpose Clearly Named Standards Valued Product Community Connections

14. Essential Elements of Applied Learning Projects Comprehensive Assessment Compelling Purpose Clearly Named Standards Valued Product Community Connections

15. Essential Elements of Applied Learning Projects Comprehensive Assessment Compelling Purpose Clearly Named Standards Valued Product Community Connections

16. Essential Elements of Applied Learning Projects Comprehensive Assessment Compelling Purpose Clearly Named Standards Valued Product Community Connections

17. Essential Elements of Applied Learning Projects Comprehensive Assessment Compelling Purpose Clearly Named Standards Valued Product Community Connections

18. Combining rigor and relevance:

19. Learning could be…

20. Learning could be… What evidence did you see in the “Museum” video of the five essential elements of Applied Learning?

21. Learning could be… • 21st Century Skills Problem-Solving Communicating Collaborating Lifelong Learning Managing Resources Using Information

22. Learning could be… • 21st Century Skills • Connections to the world • Powerful student projects • Teaching with new tools

23. Summary points: • Applied Learning empowers essential learning • Applied Learning integrates with core content • 5 core skills, 5 essential elements • Expect, model, practice and reflect

24. Applied Learning tools Curriculum Development Learning Environment Project Assessment

25. Applied Learning tools Curriculum Development Define the Purpose, Product, Audience, and Objectives

26. Applied Learning Curriculum Development: Use pp. 15 – 17 of your workshop handout to brainstorm ideas for a potential Applied Learning project: • PURPOSE • PRODUCT • AUDIENCE • OBJECTIVES

27. Applied Learning tools Curriculum Development Learning Environment Define the Purpose, Product, Audience, and Objectives Incorporate characteristics of engaging learning environments

28. Applied Learning Learning Environment: Use pp. 19 – 20 of your workshop handout to brainstorm ideas for creating an engaging learning environment: • CONNECTIONS TO THE WORLD • MULTIPLE APPROACHES AND SOLUTIONS • HIGH STAKES TASKS AND AUDIENCES • DEMOCRATIC DECISION-MAKING

29. Applied Learning tools Curriculum Development Learning Environment Project Assessment Define the Purpose, Product, Audience, and Objectives Incorporate characteristics of engaging learning environments “Map backwards” from the purpose to the standards

30. Applied Learning Foundations Contextual Teaching and Learning 21st Century Skills Real-World Projects Authentic Pedagogy

31. Applied Learning Research: Read one of the “Research Updates” found on pp. 36 – 43 of your workshop handout. Then explain to a colleague what you read, and discuss the implications for your own school.

32. Applied Learning: • New student tasks, tools, and interactions • Changing roles and resources • Preparation for the demands of the future

33. Applied Learning: “…a person, young or old, gets out of his present experience all that there is in it for him at the time he has it…only by extracting at each present time the full meaning of each present experience are we prepared for doing the same thing in the future.” JOHN DEWEY