What Belongs in Your Toolkit?
Chances are, you already use a variety of technology tools in your classroom. Some of your favorites will likely remain useful in Project-Based Learning. Keep them in mind as you start to build your Project-Based Learning tool kit. But don’t stop there.
Expand your tool kit by thinking critically about your teaching goals at each phase of the Project Path. Which tools can help you as a project manager and facilitator of learning? Which ones will help you monitor teamwork or encourage student reflection?
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Launch project Tools to spark curiosity, provoke questions, elicit students’ interests and concerns |
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Build Knowledge Tools to curate content, support research, make information accessible to diverse learners |
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Develop & Critique Tools to create prototypes, storyboards, or other drafts of final products; tools to support collaboration and solicit feedback |
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Present Products Tools to connect and engage with public audiences, encourage reflection and documentation of learning |
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Turbo Boost with Technology
Look through your selected project and consider which tools for teaching would be helpful and at what points in the project. You may want to include suggestions from the table above or incorporate others that are already part of your teaching tool kit.