Code, Create, and Connect with Community.
All powerful aims for today's classroom. Yet the first two without the third leaves learning in a void.
It is exciting to see a renewed interest in Challenge Based Learning following last week's Leadership & Learning event put on by Apple's Community Engagement Initiative team.
During the Academy, educators and school leaders used the CBL framework to guide their work as they developed an app prototype to address a community challenge.
Participants ENGAGEd in the Challenges presented by expert guest speakers, they INVESTIGATEd the issues by asking Guiding Questions, participating in Guiding Activities, and analyzing the results, and they ACTed by creating a solution in the form of an app prototype and sharing their work in a massive app showcase to gain feedback.
Even more importantly, educators thought about how they could transform their learning communities through Challenge Based Learning.
"We spend time on engagement, but engagement is fleeting. Ownership of the learning should be the goal."
For a supporting workshop we created the attached resource and we'd love to share it with others as well. It is an interactive hyperlinked presentation that only runs by tapping the images and icons on the slides. Download from the dropbox link, open in Keynote, click PLAY, and "choose your own adventure" through the wealth of curated resources and examples it contains.
Herbert Spencer said, "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." CBL allows us all to take action and make a difference. Join us for new and greater challenges to come!
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