Session Description

Learning Circles is the longest continuous running online collaborative project for students in K -12 schools throughout the world. We are celebrating our 30th year of setting the standard for student-based online collaborative project work. The goal of this meeting is bring together all prior Learning Circle participants to talk about your experiences, evaluate the program, offer suggestions for improving the process, discuss past and current research, and brainstorm possible topics for future Circles. This summit is meant to be very inclusive and is aimed at talking about experiences, sharing ideas, generating new ideas, and brainstorming suggestions for the future of Learning Circles as we enter our next decade.

What will educators learn and be able to do at the end of the session?

1. To bring together all prior Learning Circle participants to talk about their experiences
2. To evaluate current Learning Circle programs
3. To investigate new ways to increase the number of participants
4. To develop suggestions for improving the Learning Circle process
5. To determine strategies to increase the success of current participants
6. To discuss past research and promote current research
7. To brainstorm possible topics for future Learning Circles

Additional Session Information

Even though the technology has changed over time, the process and the model continue to support a structure for successful online interaction and project-based learning among teachers and students.

We are inviting anyone who has participated in any type of iEARN Learning Circle project, research project, or an iEARN project that has used the Learning Circles model.  We would also like to encourage anyone who is interested in participating in a Learning Circle project in the future to attend this meeting.

Session Resources

Learning Circles & PBL-Resource TN Academic Standards
TN Academic Standards

Learning Circles & PBL-Resource Teaching Rubric
Teaching Rubric for PBL Project

Learning Circles & PBL Resources
Project Template

Learning Circles & PBL
Presentation slides PBL

LearningCirclesSummit-PresentationSlides.ppt
Presentation slides for the Learning Circles Summit