Sunday, May 6, 2018

Project Based Learning Step 7: Public Product

Project Based Learning Step 7: Public Product

Inspire students by having them share their work with an audience beyond the classroom.
Empower students with authentic tasks, purposes and audiences.

Authentic and Public Audience

The more public the audience, the more students will care about their work. If it's something that will just be turned in to the teacher, they student will typically not be inspired to do great work unless grades are important to them. However, if their work is shared with an audience they care about, they will create work that they are proud to share. The motivation shifts from receiving a grade to being proud of what they have created.

Audiences to Consider

There are different degrees of authentic audiences. Feel free to start with audiences that are easier to manage and coordinate and then, as you gain experience and confidence with this, expand beyond the walls of your school.

  • Classmates
  • Other classrooms within the school
  • The whole student body
  • Classrooms in another school in the district
  • Parents
  • The local community
  • Classrooms outside of our district
  • State or national contests
  • The world
While there are hundreds out there, here are a couple of YouTube videos that dig into the topic of authentic audience for students.



Resources to Help Broaden Audience

Additional Project Based Learning Resources

Over the past 6 weeks, we've explored the elements of Project Based Learning. These elements are important on their own, but when put together to create a project based learning environment, they can be transformational. Not only does the PBL model foster learning of our content objectives, but it also inspires and empowers students in ways not always possible with traditional instruction.

Listed below are some additional PBL materials from the Buck Institute to help you on your journey.

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