How we developed a personalized PBL model for STEM
How can schools and districts prepare students for college and careers in STEM? Is it by asking them to passively read a textbook or listen to a teacher…
Project-based learning in the classroom
Project-based learning in the classroom
How to start a project-based-learning movement in your district
Throughout my entire career as a computer teacher, I have used project-based learning (PBL). I’ve had students as young as first grade working on projects using LCSI’s Microworlds,…
The 4 essential elements of passion-based learning
Teaching students effectively means getting to know them -- and their passions.
Expeditionary learning gets kids out of the classroom, into the field
Expeditionary learning combines fieldwork, community service, and deeper learning that hits every subject. See how it's being put to the test at one school.
These students are using PBL to define their own learning
Project-based learning enhances and accelerates curriculum in this classroom If you’re doing it right, most project-based learning will hit every ... Read more
28 apps for challenge-based learning projects
Challenge-based learning lets students locate a problem and then unleash their creativity in search of a solution. By nature, these projects are collaborative, multi-disciplinary, and hands-on. And what…
How to get STEM students to ‘poke the universe’ again
Steve Woodhead, manager of global social investment for Chevron, said the energy corporation is trying to address a big problem in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and…
Website combines project-based learning, social responsibility
A new partnership between Microsoft Corp., the Smithsonian Institution, and TakingITGlobal uses educational technology to help students solve real-world challenges through online collaboration with their peers around the…
Wisconsin agency aims to transform education’s core
With support from all of its 45 superintendents, a Wisconsin regional service agency is determined to reinvent the very nature of public education so that all students are…
iSchools lift hopes in NYC
A series of theme-based high schools are springing up across New York City, based on a model that has been open for only a year but already is…