PBL workshop – Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

Oceanography PBL workshop and case

mglessmer — Fri, 05 Jun 2015 09:18:03 +0000

My awesome colleague Marisa ran another workshop on Problem-Based Learning (PBL) in which I was lucky enough to assist. For the last workshop for people who are planning to use PBL in their teaching, we used the solar eclipse to build a case around. Since this time we weren’t as lucky to have a solar eclipse happening on […]

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Watching the solar eclipse using “household items”

mglessmer — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 10:14:59 +0000

Different methods to project the sun to watch it safely. During our recent PBL workshop, we came up with a number of different ways to watch a solar eclipse by projecting the sun’s image on a screen, using “household items” (which was the task we had set). Many different methods are shown here: Below are […]

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Problem-based learning: Solar eclipse, part II

mglessmer — Mon, 23 Mar 2015 10:14:07 +0000

PBL – the final steps. Two weeks ago, I described the first five steps of the problem-based learning (PBL) method. Last week, we continued with the workshop and went through the final steps. Step 6, the research phase, was completed over the week between the two workshops: Everybody worked on questions related to observing the […]

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Problem-Based Learning: Solar eclipse

mglessmer — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 10:24:55 +0000

Workshop on PBL, using the upcoming solar eclipse (on Friday!) as a case study. I am currently attending a workshop run by one of my all-time favorite colleagues, Marisa, on Problem-Based Learning. The workshop is aimed at people who want to use PBL in their teaching, and is split into three sessions. By pure dumb luck I realized […]

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