Report-PROBLIT Paul Lowe Dr-Vince-Ham Efellow-2006
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1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS E Fellowship Scheme The foresight of the Ministry of Education to enable teachers to be involved in research projects involving ICT’s is commendable. The partnership with CORE education has been fantastic and provided us with the tools for effective research and presentation skills to ensure effective the dissemination of our findings. This project has involved a huge number of people all of whom have been very helpful and enthusiastic. I would like to duly acknowledge their help and support. My wife Wendy and children, Natalie, Matthew and Danny for putting up with the mess and all the time spent at the computer. The students and staff at all of the CoroNet schools involved in the project: Coromandel Area School, Mercury Bay Area School, Whangamata Area School, Waihi College, Paeroa College, Thames High School, Te Aroha College and my own school Morrinsville College. The Morrinsville College principal John Inger and the Board of Trustees deserve special thanks for their support of this project. Vince and his team at CORE supplied plenty of encouragement, helpful assistance, technical support and some superb resource people. Prof Darrell Fisher of Curtin University (WA) as a professional partner. Mrs Sandy Tritt of Morrinsville for her professional proof reading of this document. Thank you to all of the helpful people who helped out with the camps and other events such as: Duncan Reid and his team at Auckland University of Technology, Arthur Cozens of Auckland University, Sue Hill and the team at ARC and DOC, Ben and Rebecca Stubbs and the team at Waitomo Caves, Bill Mace and the team at the Piako Gliding Club. AgResearch staff, Hamilton. Phillip Buchanan of CoroNet who was so helpful with IT and other issues Dr Jim Kaput (USA) and Dr Lyn Fergusson (Auckland University), Sara Loughnane and Cathy Bunting of Waikato University and Dr Julie Hall of Niwa. The Fellowship of working with a fantastic group of dedicated teachers who had such a lot in common in spite of a range from pre school to secondary school. Please feel free to contact me with any comments or feedback Dr Paul Lowe: [email protected], 0210545371 or Skype jpaullowe 2 Table of Contents PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING IN TEAMS FOR A CLUSTER WIDE CYBER SCIENCE CLASS ...................................................................................................................................................... 5 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................... 5 Background and Rationale .............................................................................................................. 5 Gifted and Talented Programmes ................................................................................................... 5 The PROBLIT Project ..................................................................................................................... 8 THE CORONET ICT CLUSTER ............................................................................................................... 9 Research Project Outline: ............................................................................................................... 9 KEY COMPONENTS OF THE PROJECT ................................................................................................... 10 Student Selection ........................................................................................................................... 10 Teamwork and Assessment ............................................................................................................ 12 Project Time and PROBLIT .......................................................................................................... 12 Student Directed Learning (SDL) ................................................................................................. 12 Problem-Based Learning .............................................................................................................. 13 Face-to-Face Camps ..................................................................................................................... 13 ICT’s and PROBLIT ...................................................................................................................... 13 Work Space .................................................................................................................................... 14 Key Stake Holders ......................................................................................................................... 14 THE RESEARCH ................................................................................................................................... 14 Aims ............................................................................................................................................... 14 Objectives ...................................................................................................................................... 14 Significance of this project ............................................................................................................ 15 CHAPTER 2 LITERATURE REVIEW ............................................................................................. 16 HOW THE PROBLIT STUDENTS ARE LEARNING ................................................................................. 16 Teamwork (cooperative learning) ................................................................................................. 16 Problem-Based Learning (PBL) .................................................................................................... 23 WHAT THE PROBLIT STUDENTS ARE LEARNING .............................................................................. 26 Attitudes ......................................................................................................................................... 26 Self-Efficacy .................................................................................................................................. 29 SOLO: Deep Thinking .................................................................................................................. 30 CHAPTER 3 METHODOLOGY ........................................................................................................ 33 TO DETERMINE THE EFFECT OF PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING IN ONLINE TEAMS .............................. 33 Attitudes: Quantitative Data ......................................................................................................... 33 Attitudes: Qualitative Data ........................................................................................................... 34 TO DETERMINE THE EFFECT OF PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING IN ONLINE TEAMS .............................. 37 On student learning outcomes ....................................................................................................... 37 TO DETERMINE THE FEASIBILITY OF THE ICT RICH PROGRAMME ..................................................... 39 CHAPTER 4 THE LEARNING EXPERIENCES: PROBLIT SCIENCE CLASS ....................... 40 CAMP EXPERIENCES ........................................................................................................................... 40 Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 40 Human Potential ........................................................................................................................... 41 Cave Chemistry ............................................................................................................................. 43 Goat Island .................................................................................................................................... 49 CAMPS: A SUMMARY .......................................................................................................................... 52 VIDEO CONFERENCE EXPERIENCES .................................................................................................... 52 Planned VC Meetings .................................................................................................................... 53 PROBLIT VC Debate .................................................................................................................... 53 PROBLIT: Who Wants to be a Millionaire? ................................................................................. 56 Nutrigenomics by VC. ................................................................................................................... 56 Parent night VC ............................................................................................................................. 58 AgResearch Day: Hamilton .......................................................................................................... 58 Dr David Lowe: NIWA Greta Point .............................................................................................. 58 Student Style “Who wants to be a millionaire?” .......................................................................... 58 3 COURSE WORK AND ICT EXPERIENCES .............................................................................................. 59 CHAPTER 5 RESULTS AND CONCLUSION ................................................................................. 60 THE EFFECT OF PROBLEM-BASED