Title: Welcome to the SEED Collaborative Workshop for Facilitators
1Welcome to theSEED CollaborativeWorkshopfor
Facilitators
- Kuala Lumpur
- March 13, 2006
2What is SEED?
- A volunteer-based corporate non-profit
educational development program whose members - share their passion for learning and science and
- create opportunities for youth around the world
3What are the goals of the facilitator workshop?
- Help volunteers, teachers, and students to
- Plan and facilitate a successful collaborative
workshop - Learn more about workshop tools and their
applications - Be able to establish and facilitate a
project-based learning-while-doing environment - Encourage behavior that is collaborative,
respectful, and safe - Find appropriate roles to support and encourage
all participants - Motivate participants to sustain their learning
activities beyond the workshop
4What are the goals of the collaborative workshop?
- Create awareness among teachers of the benefits
of the LWD methodology - Generate interest among teachers for implementing
the LWD methodology in their own teaching - Assist teachers in planning how to implement the
LWD methodology in their school settings - Create ongoing collaborative communication among
teachers from different schools - Create a self-sustaining movement among
participating teachers to continue the LWD
methodology after the workshop
5What is project based learning?
- Rather than as a science lesson or a
mathematics lesson, project based learning
focuses first on identifying a problem to be
solved or a project to develop.
As a byproduct of this project, participants
develop a deeper understanding of related
concepts from many different subject areas in
an authentic and engaging way.
6What is Learning While Doing (LWD)?
- Active
- Simultaneous roles of
- learning and teaching
- Diverse styles and
- approaches
- Exploration and risk-taking
- Collaborative
- Curriculum on demand
7CollaborativeLearning
- Work in groups
- Respect each other
- Encourage everyone to be both a learner and a
teacher - Involve all group members
8Workshop ThemeClimate Change and Energy
- Local and global perspectives
- Basis for group projects
- Motivation for sustained work beyond workshop
9LearningTools
- Building energy inventory and survey
- MicroWorlds EX Robotics simulation software
- GoGo board, sensors, output devices, and software
10Safety Considerations
- Establishment of constant safety
- awareness
- Initial safety orientation (procedure for fire
- and other hazardous events)
- First aid kit and fire extinguisher location
- Walking safely
- Seatbelts in transportation
- Goggles for soldering
- Knife blade safety procedure
- Immediate reporting of unsafe situation
11ProjectDevelopmentStage 1 Brainstorming
- Stage 1 group task brainstorm project concept
ideas related to the theme for 15 to 20 minutes - Generate as many different ideas as possible
- Write down each idea in a list
- Do not evaluate or discuss any idea yet
- Encourage all group members to contribute ideas
- Make use of unusual ideas to inspire more ideas
12ProjectDevelopmentStage 2 Project Concept
- Stage 2 group task Decide on project concept
- Discuss and evaluate ideas on brainstorm list
- Begin grouping related ideas
- Assemble as many groups of ideas as possible into
a - system for the project concept
- Where possible, relate to the workshop theme and
- make use of the workshop tools
- Draw up a plan, including a schematic and perhaps
a - flow chart, to communicate your project concept
13ProjectDevelopmentStage 3 Project Completion
- Stage 3 group task Work together to develop,
test, revise, finalize, and present finished
project - Start and maintain project journal
- Develop and test a prototype
- Make necessary revisions and test again
- Develop animation or computerized simulation
- Finalize project prototype
- Share project with others
14ProjectComponents
- Working model
- Schematic diagram
- (and optional flow chart)
- Project report in MicroSoft Word, including GoGo
procedure - MicroWorlds EX Robotics file
- GoGo Monitor file
15ProjectPresentations
- All group members participate
- Explain the scope of the project, how it is
related to - the theme, and the problem it is designed to
solve - Demonstrate the working model and the simulation
- Describe the problems encountered and how they
- were overcome
- Invite questions from the audience
16Newsletter andDirectory
- Specific teachers and/or volunteers take
responsibility for developing - Pictorial directory of all participants,
including - photograph, name, affiliation, and email
address. - Newsletter of the collaborative workshop,
including - photographs and descriptions of the events of
- each day.
17Teacher Meetings
- Give teachers the opportunity to discuss
observations - and methodology
- Invite questions about how the workshop projects
- and approaches might be extended into the
regular - school year
- Encourage teachers to discuss among themselves
- ideas for future workshops and related
initiatives
18WorkshopSustainability
- As the workshop ends, ask yourselves
- What did the students learn? What are the
- indications that they learned these things?
- What did you, the facilitators, learn?
- What will you, the facilitators, commit to for
- the future?
19Facilitators WorkshopMarch 13, 2006Kuala
Lumpur
0830 0930 Introduction overview of the day and
the week 0930 1100 Working with
MicroWorlds 1100 1230 Getting going with GoGo
Boards 1230 1330 Lunch 1330 1400 Allocating
facilitator tasks and roles for the week 1400
1430 Review of project ideas brainstorming 1430
1630 Project development 1630 1700 Wrap up
prepare to meet the participants
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