Participate

Opportunities to Participate

Challenge Based Learning is built with the participatory nature of the Web 2.0 world in mind, and there are multiple opportunities for participants to share. By promoting participation and sharing, Challenge Based Learning can develop organically and leverage the interests of students and teachers across the globe. As the world changes, new big ideas, essential questions, and challenges can be posed. The level of participation will vary based on time constraints, interest, and so on. Within the Challenge Based Learning process, teachers and students can participate at many different levels. We hope that you will leverage the wide variety of social networking resources currently available to share your solutions and new challenges. Tag your contributions with ACOT2 and Challenge Based Learning so they can be readily found.

Engage your students in a challenge. Implement one of the challenges with your students.

Publish. Once you have taken on a challenge, have your students document their solutions through video and publish them within freely available online repositories such as the Apple Learning Interchange (ALI), iTunes podcast directory, iTunes U, YouTube, TeacherTube, Ning, and Facebook.

Create new challenges. Students and teachers are invited to create a new challenge using the standard template. Perhaps you have a different sustainability issue that impacts your community or an entirely new big idea, essential questions, and challenge. As you publish new challenges, tag them with ACOT2 and CBL so others can engage with you.