Project-Based Learning

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Curriculum Opinion Five Stages of Service Learning
Global issues often play out locally. Service learning is a way students can engage in real-world issues while building the knowledge, skills, and experiences that will serve them throughout their lives. I've asked Cathryn Berger Kaye, author of The Complete Guide to Service Learning: Proven, Practical Ways to Engage Students in Civic Responsibility, Academic Curriculum, & Social Action, to share her expertise in developing a service learning program.
Anthony Jackson, June 13, 2013
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School & District Management Opinion Students as Professionals: Prepare Learners for the Global Workforce
How schools can help address the skills gap and help youth find employment after graduation.
Anthony Jackson & Yi Zheng, May 31, 2013
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Federal Opinion Project-Based Learning Leads to Innovation
Unique, project-based learning opportunities foster students' passion and creativity and allow teachers to promote innovation and Deeper Learning.
Anthony Jackson & Lisa Tyrrell, April 23, 2013
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Curriculum Video Building Skills in the Interactive Schoolhouse
At Lady Bird Johnson Middle School, which opened in August 2011 in the fast-growing Irving Independent School District in Texas, the 950 students have firsthand experience with technology-enhanced project-based learning. The interactive school is a net-zero building, meaning it produces as much energy as it consumes, using a variety of geothermal techniques to conserve energy, including rain-water collection, gray-water harvesting, natural daylight in classrooms, and geothermal heat pumps. It also employs solar technology and wind turbines to produce energy. The school is divided into four learning modules in different wings of the building, each with a theme: geothermal, wind energy, solar energy, and water conservation. Through interactive digital displays in an informal museum-like setting, students learn about how those techniques help conserve and produce energy. The concepts are also incorporated into the curriculum, which emphasizes science, math, and environmental education. http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2013/03/14/25newlook.h32.html Education Week Video
March 12, 2013
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Classroom Technology Opinion How to Encourage Students to Interact With the World
The future is increasingly global. How do we, as educators, prepare students to be globally competent?
Anthony Jackson, Honor Moorman & Jennifer D. Klein, February 5, 2013
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College & Workforce Readiness Latest Curriculum Craze: Making Stuff
A Huffington Post article says that, in a kind of backlash against the test-driven curricula that have prevailed in many schools over the past decade, there's a growing interest among educators and parents in giving kids more hands-on, experiential learning projects. One example of the reported movement:
Anthony Rebora, January 4, 2013
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Teaching Do You Really Know What Project-Based Learning Is?
Teacher Azul Terronez explains that within project-based learning, students explore and make discoveries through the project itself.
Liana Loewus, January 3, 2013
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School & District Management Documentary Explores 'Place-Based' Learning
I finally had a chance to watch a documentary I've been meaning to get to for several months now called "Schools That Change Communities."
Liana Loewus, October 31, 2012
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Teaching One Teacher's Flip From Flipped Classrooms
While flipped classrooms are still all the rage in some education circles, teacher and blogger Shelley Wright explains why her "brief love affair with the flip has ended."
Liana Loewus, October 9, 2012
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Teaching Exploring the Role of Tech in the Classroom
In a recent Education Week Commentary piece, William J. Oehlkers and Cindy DiDonato argue that, for new tech platforms like tablet computers to reach their educational potential (and not become mere classroom distractions), they must be used in the context of project-based learning:
Anthony Rebora, March 27, 2012
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Justin Quigley, 16, a junior at Pittsfield High School, in Pittsfield, N.H., observes a surgery at the Companion Animal Hospital, in Chichester, with Dr. Fiona Doody. He is shadowing veterinarians at the hospital as part of a regional program that seeks to extend students’ learning experiences beyond the traditional classroom.
Justin Quigley, 16, a junior at Pittsfield High School, in Pittsfield, N.H., observes a surgery at the Companion Animal Hospital, in Chichester, with Dr. Fiona Doody. He is shadowing veterinarians at the hospital as part of a regional program that seeks to extend students’ learning experiences beyond the traditional classroom.
Katie Barnes for Education Week
School & District Management New England Project Aims to Use 'i3' Aid for Innovative Learning Approaches
Student-created, teacher-guided learning experiences can take place beyond the traditional classroom setting.
July 12, 2011
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Curriculum New Research on Instructional Styles: Take Your Pick
The journal Science is publishing a study finding that, in an introductory college physics course, students placed in an experimental, collaborative-learning class performed significantly better on an end-of-course exam than students who were given a traditional lecture-based class.
Anthony Rebora, May 16, 2011
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1 min read
Teaching Algebra, Reality TV-Style
A new public television multimedia project for teens combines algebra instruction with hip hop, fashion, video games, and reality television.
Anthony Rebora, January 12, 2011
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Student Achievement Series Edutopia: Schools That Work
In this series, Edutopia takes a deep look at what school successes are made of, presented via a content-sharing partnership with EdWeek.
October 26, 2010
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