{"data":{"ID":365,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1384034470,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Elementary, PBL & Public Schools. Is it possible?","Handle":"Elementary-PBL-Public_Schools-Is_it_possible","ShortDescription":"Is PBL just for grades 6-12? In this discussion we will challenge whether or not authentic problem based learning is possible in a public elementary school. We will look at three components: curriculum, aesthetics and norms and flesh out each component to arrive at a working model of PBL in an elementary environment.","Description":"Problem and Project based learning is often practiced in grades 6-12, but rarely in grades K-5. Our essential question is, how can students at an earlier developmental age gain the foundation of literacy and math skills in a true PBL,K-5 setting? Is the design of a true PBL classroom developmentally appropriate for this age group and for public schools? This will be a hands-on, minds-on session that will examine and then construct curriculum,  aesthetics and norms. Come ready to share, build and challenge.","Link":["http:\/\/pottsedtech.blogspot.com"],"Audience":["Elementary School"],"Practice":"This will be a conversation that will take place in a large and then smaller groups. The larger group will be used for identifying pros and cons associated with such a learning environment, details for consideration and determine a goal for the end product. Then, the smaller groups will focus on the details of fruition; one group will construct the aesthetics, one construct the essential elements of the curriculum and the other discuss how norms need to be structured in a K-5 PBL school. Participants will organically come to see how each group's mission is intertwined. Google docs will be used for collaboration, construction tools (such as poster boards, blocks, etc.) will be used for building. Twitter will be used to share out conversation pieces and constructed visuals. The conversation will end with participants sharing what ideas from the session they will bring back to their colleagues (our form of a \"do now\").","Presenter":["Diana Potts"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Lambertville Public School","NJEA (consultant)"],"PresenterEmail":["pottsedtech@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":28,"ScheduleLocationID":6,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"This proposal comes from the want to see more elementary focused discussions on the menu of conferences like Educon. It also comes from a discussion recently had with an educator asking the same question, \"is a public K-5 elementary school really possible?\" As an educator who sits on the elementary\/middle school fence of practice, I've wanted to see more elementary focused sessions that engage educators of this specific, earlier developmental age group and challenges traditional, elementary pedagogy. This is the right place to do so.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3}}