Creating Digital Portfolios Worthy
of the Time and Effort
Module Five - Example One - Problem Solving
One strategy suggested by the CES Model is the development of projects or activities that lead to products and exhibitions of various kinds each of which can demonstrate mastery of a half dozen or more major objectives.Following this logic, you might develop a PBL unit (Problem-Based Learning) that required students to develop an action plan to present to local government suggesting strategies to improve a local condition such as traffic or water quality in a stream passing through the community.
In the process of identifying and understanding the issue, students would grapple with challenges in the chief domains listed by New Hampshire.
a. Text Literacy;
b. Numeracy;
c. Problem solving;
d. Decision making; and
e. Spatial / visual literacy
Properly designed, a single unit of study in Seventh or Eighth Grade might lead to a dozen digital artifacts or products that would address all of the above.
Spend 10-15 minutes reading through PBL pages at http://fnopress.com/pbl2/toc.html and find at least one activity that would match each of the categories above.
Please do not move to the next module until asked to do so by the workshop leader.
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