This is the keynote that I presented at Slide2Learn via Skype form Jakarta to Perth on Tuesday, 23 April 2013. There are several links in this presentation to videos on You Tube.

1. Challenge
Based Learning
in Indonesia
Jane Ross
Sinarmas World Academy
Apple Distinguished Educator
Professional Development

2. Main idea: “It is our shared
responsibility to ensure
resources are more evenly
distributed.”

3. Challenge Based Learning

4. Know your students ...
Begin with their understanding and help them to learn about different
perspectives and how to make connections to their own lives.

5. Front loading
Before I could address the main idea I
needed to build empathy in my students
towards those who are less fortunate.

6. The teachers needed an
activity to get the
students thinking
about what life is like on
a limited budget.

7. In groups of 4, students were asked
to work out how they could buy a
healthy meal for four people with
Rp14.000 ($1.50).

8. Get the students to voice
their questions and
record those questions.

9. Is bread enough for eating in one meal? (Gabi)
– Can we just eat bread for this meal?
What kinds of food are too expensive for
people who have less money? (Shereen)
Can you just live on water? (Zubin)
Google did not provide any answers so
the students asked themselves.

10. Students in
Grade 5
who can’t
survive
without
eating rice.

11. The cheapest rice in the local
village was 60 cents a liter.
Click video to go to
YouTube to watch the video

12. I bought three different qualities of rice.

13. Estimating the Weight of the Rice
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YouTube to watch it

14. The students cooked the rice and then decided to turn it into fried
rice which successfully came under budget.

15. Going further ...

16. The initial inquiry into ‘Life on a
Limited Budget’ left the class with
many unanswered questions.
The students discovered that
Indonesia doesn’t produce enough
rice to feed its’ own people.

17. How is rice distributed - how is it grown?

18. How big is a
Javanese
rice farm?

19. Predict:
Is an average
Javanese rice
farm bigger or
smaller than
the school
soccer field?

20. Assessment

21. RIFQI
The really hard part was if we have a family, we have to provide
for our family. I think it is a very hard thing. It is something that we
have to do, to learn how to make food for our family. If we don’t
have any money, how can we buy ingredients?

22. SHEREEN
I really was very surprised and interested about the farmers struggle and that
they themselves cannot eat what they had grown because they cannot afford
the rice. They have to buy food that is cheaper like cheaper rice and cheaper
food. After we had measured our school’s soccer field, Ms. Jane told us that
the rice field is smaller than our soccer field. That was a big shock for all of us!
That is why the farmers can’t eat their own food, because they don’t have a big
rice field and also that they cannot afford it. We also learned that the farmers
only get nine million a year, meaning they only get Rp 750,000 ($75) a month. I
feel like whenever I see a rice field it looks much smaller than it did before.

23. First Visit to the Landfill

24. The students discussed how they would like to carry out the first visit to the
Landfill. They decided to bring some food to share, sing a song together
and to ask some questions so that we could get to know each other better.

25. Again ... we recorded our
questions and observations

26. We had three main
interest groups

27. Light
Shelter
Water

28. Our first Visit to the Landfill Site
Click video to go
to YouTube to
watch the video

29. Don’t just tell them the answer ...
Think about the learning
outcome instead.

30. Shelter

31. How Can We Design a Community Building?
This activity tied in
very nicely with the
current Math unit of
work.
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to YouTube to
watch the video

32. How Can We Enable Access to Clean Water?
The students learned
about carrying water. The
children at the Landfill site
have to carry water for
their families.

33. The water supply is
contaminated
by the Landfill.

34. A Needs Assessment
showed us that the
water supply needed
fixing first.

35. The class wrote to some water purification experts and organized an official visit.

36. Here is the
actual blueprint
showing the
bathrooms that
we will build for
this community.
We wait to
determine the
land rental before
we can build.

37. Challenge
Based Learning
in Indonesia
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38. About Me
Jane Ross
Grade 4 Teacher
Sinarmas World Academy
Apple Distinguished Educator
ÿ Professional Developer
Asia ADE Advisory Board member
22 years teaching experience
Masters in Education Technology
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