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Welcome to the
SEED Collaborative
Workshop
Tyumen, Siberia, Russia
October 9-12, 2006
What 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
What are the goals of
the collaborative workshop?
•Explore the Learning-While-Doing
approach
•Work collaboratively in a project-based
environment while learning about global
climate change and energy
•Keep the flame burning
•Have some fun!
Learning
Experiences
•Project-based learning
•Learning while doing (LWD)
•Collaborative learning
•Learning tools
•Theme-based approach
What 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.
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.
What is
Learning While Doing (LWD)?
•Active
•Simultaneous roles of
learning and teaching
•Diverse styles and
approaches
•Exploration and risktaking
•Collaborative
•Curriculum “on demand”
Collaborative
Learning
• Work in groups
• Respect each other
• Encourage everyone to be both a learner
and a teacher
• Involve all group members
Learning
Tools
• GoGo board, sensors, output devices,
and software
• MicroWorlds multimedia software
Workshop Theme:
Global Climate Change and
Energy
• Local and global problems and
perspectives
• Basis for group projects
• Motivation for sustained work
beyond workshop
Workshop Agenda
Monday, October 9
Familiarization with concept and
tools
Start on project planning
Tuesday & Wednesday, October 10 &
11
Field trip and continue project work
Thursday, October 12
Finish project work
Project
Development
Stage 1: Brainstorming
Stage 1 team task: brainstorm theme-related
problems and 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
Project
Development
Stage 2: Project Concept
Stage 2 team 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 diagram and a flow
chart to communicate your project concept
Project
Development
Stage 3: Project Completion
Stage 3 team task: Work together to develop,
test, revise, finalize, and share finished project
•Start and maintain project journal in Microsoft
Word
•Develop and test a prototype
•Make necessary revisions and test again
•Develop animation using MicroWorlds
•Finalize project prototype
•Share project with others
Project
Components
•Working model
•Schematic diagram and flow chart
•Project report in MicroSoft Word,
including GoGo procedure
•Project simulation or extension in
MicroWorlds file
•Project summary posted on
SEED Bulletin Board
Special Notice
•The project work in this SEED workshop is not a
competition.
•The value of the project work is in the process.
•You have planned together and cooperated in your work.
•You have learned about climate change and energy.
•You have learned how to apply tools to solve problems
that are important to the world.
•You have learned that everyone is both a learner and a
teacher.
•This is the BEST kind of learning! It is not a competition.