PBL Exercise 1

This is an experiential activity. With very little preparation, you will be thrown into a problem about which you have little or no prior knowledge. We'll use this experience to give you a sense of what PBL will be like for your own learners.

At several intervals during the exercise, you'll be asked to record your thoughts and feelings. We'll use this as input later as we discuss ways to optimize PBL for different types of learners.

You'll be divided into teams of 5 or 6 with each team assigned to one of the following problems:

Team A - Mississippi Fats

Team B - Sharia in the UK

Team C - Marines out of Berkeley

After reading the article that goes with your team, log into our Wikispace to begin the PBL process.

After we've spent several hours on the exercise, we'll debrief it and formalize it with a presentation about the 7 stages of PBL.

 

This page supports the course EDTEC 700: PBL to Enhance Decision-Making Skills at http://edweb.sdsu.edu/courses/edtec700/DM/