9:00 AM  -  Noon
Power Learning 5.0
Problem-Based Learning 101
Learn how to organize units of study around pressing problems and challenges drawn from the environment and society. Using this approach, students will learn to define problems fully, to consider promising strategies to address the problem and to build an action plan worthy of presentation to whatever group or agency has prime responsibility for handling the problem.

Noon  -  12:30 PM
Lunch
A box lunch served on site.
     
12:30 PM  -  3:30 PM
Power Learning 6.0
Wondering with and about Images, Words and Numbers

Images
Paintings, photographs, sketches and other types of images can provoke a sense of wonder and engage students in valuable inferential reasoning as they seek to grasp explicit and implicit meanings. Jamie will lead the group through a series of examples ranging from propaganda posters of previous wars through paintings and current advertising. "What's the story here?" will recur as a persistent question driving interpretation.

Numbers
Research findings, climate data, economic data and other types of data collections are much like other information sources, as they can provoke a sense of wonder and engage students in valuable inferential reasoning as they seek to grasp explicit and implicit meanings. Jamie will lead the group through a series of examples ranging from recent reports of educational research through datasets for population, crime and climate as well as news articles claiming to report the meaning of such data. As with pictures, "What's the story here?" will recur as a persistent question driving interpretation of the numbers.

Words
Many passages offer much more than surface meaning, providing levels of metaphor or subtexts that may be more important than what first meets the eye. In some cases, these levels are poetic in their intention. In other cases, words are used to control, influence and persuade. Jamie will lead the group through a series of examples ranging from poetry to news reports, editorials, advertisements and policy documents, showing how students can learn to wonder, ponder and unwrap such documents. As with pictures and numbers, "What's the real story here?" will recur as a persistent question driving interpretation of the text.