Project-Based Learning
(PBL) is an instructional approach where traditional, direct classroom instruction and tests are replaced by authentic, often interdisciplinary projects, usually designed by the student with guidance from instructors/coaches, addressing real-world problems as the assessment instead of a test. It also is closely related to deeper learning, challenge-based learning, interest-based learning and more.
Getting Through
Leading Adult Learning during COVID-19
By: Jenny Pieratt, Ph.D. In part two of a three-part series, Jenny discusses how to recreate places of adult development during these times of distance education.
Difference Making
Can Peer Mentoring Solve the STEM Gender Gap?
Global technology education nonprofit Technovation demonstrates the power of a community-based approach to teaching computer science to young females that centers around real-world problem-solving and mentorship.
Difference Making
Oaklore: A Student Podcast About Difference Making in Oakland
Students in Oakland have launched Oaklore, a student podcast focused on highlighting Oakland's changemakers and cross-generational storytelling.
EdTech
How Hands-On Robotics Brings Science Lessons to Life
By: Katie Blagden and Barb Tennyson. Incorporating coding and engineering into earth and life science lessons engage students and inspires them to show their learning.
Future of Learning
Voices from the Field: Best Practices
By: Erin Gohl and Kristen Thorson. We can support our teachers and the work they do by valuing their perspective and insights, providing them with the resources specific to their students’ needs, and giving them the autonomy to respond to the variations in learning and circumstance within their classrooms.
Place Based Education
The Power of Place: Authentic Learning Through Place-Based Education
Tom Vander Ark, Emily Liebtag and Nate McClennen share six defining principles of place-based education in their new book “The Power of Place: Authentic Learning Through Place-Based Education.”
Future of Learning
‘Why Do We Have to Learn This?’—Part II
By: Art Bardige. The way math is taught in school is antiquated. Spreadsheet math and open web schools can more adequately prepare students for our time.
Future of Learning
D.C. Students Learn New Skills In An Old Building: Washington Leadership Academy
In a century-old building that once housed a seminary in northeast Washington, D.C. is a great college prep high school. It’s a bit “Oxford on the outside, Google on the inside.
Future of Learning
How the Brain Science of Games Helps Students Reach ‘Aha Moments’
By: Nigel Nisbet. Brain science games can provide students with vehicles for inspiring more and more 'aha moments'—something that is hard to do at will.
EdTech
6 Collaboration Tools That Take Learning Beyond the Classroom
Collaboration tools can promote student choice and extend learning to meet their needs. Here are 6 options for schools to consider.