Camp Project Based Learning Scholarship 2008

Project Based Learning
Transforms Your Teaching

Choose from Three Camps:
PBL Camp 1: June 16-20, 2008
PBL Camp 2: July 14-18, 2008
PBL Camp 3: August 4-8, 2008

“I’ll never go back to the way I used to teach,”¹ insists Adam Kinory, a high school humanities teacher (Boss/Krauss 2007, p4). Project-Based Learning is perhaps the best way to engage students, integrate technology, and achieve higher levels of thinking among students in any content area. Though not a new idea — John Dewey espoused several of PBLs’ tenets over one hundred years ago — project-based learning is not curriculum, but an instructional strategy that can be used at any grade level and in any content area. Many technologies, especially those of the “Web 2.0” generation, are well-suited to support successful PBL implementation. Join us for Camp PBL during the summer of 2008. You’ll be glad you did!

Camp curriculum will integrate technology throughout the experience and address:

• PBL Tenets, Benefits, and Challenges
• Planning — Start at the Finish!
• Integrating Standards in PBL Instructional Design
• Preparing a PBL Environment
• Managing Successful PBL in the Classroom
• Assessing Learning in PBL

During the camp we’ll explore, use and implement readily available technologies that will help you plan, manage, implement, document, and assess quality PBL experiences in your classroom or school. You will leave with a ready-to-use PBL plan and myriad resources to transform your teaching to meet 21^st century needs through project-based learning.

Camp PBL Cost:

$500 registration fee includes training, materials, and lunches.

Where:

The camp will be held at the Buddy Teaching and Learning Center (6920 Gatwick Drive, Suite 130, I ndianapolis, IN 46241) from 8:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M. each day.

Graduate credit available:

Camp participants may also choose to enroll for three hours of graduate credit (special university tuition fees apply). Graduate credit students will be required to complete and implement projects as well as meet for a sharing day event sometime during November or December, 2008.

Questions:

Contact Margaret Manuzzi, BTLC Coordinator, at mmanuzzi@btlc.org or 317.856.2223.

¹ Boss, Suzie and Krauss, Jane. (2007) Reinventing Project-Based Learning. International Society for Technology in Education.