Project-based Learning

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Foreword: Project-based Learning (PBL) in LTFC

At this time of rapid global changes effected by the development of a global economy and the revolutions in information technology, our world has shifted away from an industrial model of society to a learning society. These changes require education to develop individuals with the skills to make sense of the knowledge they acquire through the cognitive processes, skills of problem-solving and collaborative work, personal values and habits of mind necessary to engage in lifelong learning. It is under such a pretext that our school is vigorously committed to be truly a learning organization.

While our students continue to acquire intellectual development through a comprehensive, challenging and demanding mix of academic, aesthetic and physical endeavours., our mission remains the all round development of the young person. The long-term target of our school curriculum is to groom INDEPENDENT LEARNERS AND EFFECTIVE THINKERS --- A 'PERFECT' GENERATION OF THE 21ST CENTURY. A step we have taken as from 2007 is the introduction of a new mould of learning, we call “Learning Across the Curriculum” (LAC). To start with, a new mode of learning by putting together project-based, research-based and inquiry-based learning approaches in students’ different key stages of learning is launched.

These new approaches set the direction for curriculum integration in our school. The key objective is the training of our students’ active thinking mind through the use of the knowledge they obtain from the wide reading and research they make across the curriculum. We are aware that the knowledge the students learn in class remains dead or is totally wiped out from their minds soon after the examinations unless it is being applied and used. It is not the content but the activity of constructing it that gets stored in memory. This is the rationale behind the project-based learning. As a saying goes, "Humans don’t get ideas; they make ideas."

After a trial period in 2007-2008, between September and December 2008, our students were taught some basic skills on thinking and information collection, skills for collaborative work in groups, data analysis, formulation of researchable questions and answers seeking.

From January to May 2009, they will learn to apply these skills through a research project of their own choice in groups of 4 to 6 under the guidance of a teacher adviser, as well as develop the 9 generic skills of learning in order to learn independently. We stress the need of collaborative group work, as meaning making is not just an individual operation. Each individual interacts with others to construct shared knowledge.

This new direction of learning in our school will enable our students who are keen and capable of doing well in their studies to become critically aware of the need to apply their knowledge in real life situation by going deep into some areas of their interest and make connections. We believe that effective thinkers and independent learners are the direct beneficiaries of life-wide reading and research. If our students never seek and find something out themselves, they may not learn anything at all.

It is hoped that with the experience we gain this year in LAC, our teachers of all subjects in all year levels will take steps to incorporate wider reading and will provide more choices for students in research topics, and LTFC will become a school that values enquiry and curiosity of learning, a school where general knowledge is alive, well and growing.

前言 : 學會學習

為什麼要做專題研習？

為配合學會學習，你們將開始一門新的研究性學習模式 -「專題研習」。

為什麼要做專題研習？從專題研習，學習不再全是老師講學生記，不再純粹靠記憶背誦複述，不再只是在課堂內學習書本裡的東西，不再以考試作為衡量你的成績的唯一標準。它將要求你和你的同學，在導師的指導下，從主題中選擇一個自己感興趣的副題，然後圍繞這個課題，通過檢索收集相關文獻資料、開展社會調查、訪問有關部門或人物、做實驗、統計數據等多種手法；最後在分析、比較、研究的基礎上解決你所提出的課題。在這裡，你將親身體驗知識的發生及發展過程，知道可以到那裏去獲取知識，懂得知識的作用和價值，了解你所生活的社區和世界，學會與人交往和合作，培養對國家和社會的責任感，真正承擔起自己的學習責任。這一切，是生活在廿一世紀的你必須具備的素質和能力。

剛開始接觸「專題研習」，你一定會感到很多困難︰到那裏找問題？什麼樣的題目才是適合中學生研究？怎樣查閱文獻資料？怎樣做社會調查？怎樣設計實驗？怎樣寫研究計劃？怎樣撰寫問題報告？怎樣展示自己的研究成果？ … 這本專題研習學生手冊會給你提供一些建議和方法。你可以用這本手冊作為參考資料或指南，但千萬不要作為框框。我們想，更多的應該由你自己來體驗和創造。

不管你在學科課程的學習中是領先還是落後，在專題研習中，你和其他同學都處在同一起跑道上。只要你積極投入其中，充分發揮自己的合作精神、探索精神、協作能力和創造能力，那麼你一定會成功。我們等待著分享你成功的喜悅！

學會學習概略
一、透過專題研習，我們可以學會︰