After being introduced to Apple's Challenge Based Learning, I have decided to try this in my 3rd grade classroom. Challenge Based Learning is different than the popular Project Based Learning, which is what I am pretty comfortable with as most of my lessons center around students creating to demonstrate their learning. Challenge Based Learning is different because students identify a real community or global challenge then develop a solution to actually implement.
I have been gathering a lot of resources from the Digital Promise website http://cbl.digitalpromise.org
The framework for CBL is Engage-Investigate-Act. I am excited to start this challenge this week. For the Engage phase our Big Idea will be Bullying. From there, students will generate essential questions about the topic then turn those essential questions into a call to action. Not sure how long our Engage phase will be and I know I will have to do some modeling with my young learners.
Visit my blog in a few weeks to see how our CBL is going! Be sure to visit the Digital Promise website if you are interested in learning more.
I have been gathering a lot of resources from the Digital Promise website http://cbl.digitalpromise.org
The framework for CBL is Engage-Investigate-Act. I am excited to start this challenge this week. For the Engage phase our Big Idea will be Bullying. From there, students will generate essential questions about the topic then turn those essential questions into a call to action. Not sure how long our Engage phase will be and I know I will have to do some modeling with my young learners.
Visit my blog in a few weeks to see how our CBL is going! Be sure to visit the Digital Promise website if you are interested in learning more.