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The Difference Between Projects And Project-Based Learning
The Difference Between Projects And Project-Based Learning by TeachThought Staff Projects in the classroom are as old as the classroom itself.
The Difference Between Projects And Project-Based Learning
The Difference Between Projects And Project-Based Learning by TeachThought Staff Projects in the classroom are as old as the classroom itself. “Projects” can represent a range of tasks that can be done at home or in the classroom, by parents or groups of students, quickly or over time. While project-based learning (PBL) also features projects, in PBL the focus is more on the process of learning and learner-peer-content interaction that the end-product itself.
Baby Steps to creating a Makerspace in the Library
Makerspaces in Your Library When I entered Fields Elementary Library, it was traditional in every way. Slowly, I have worked to make it a learning space, one where I can share technology and create a community of shared learning. Gone are the days that the library is just a place to check in and check out books.
HQPBL Update: Less Than One Year To Go!
Here at BIE, we have focused our attention and support exclusively on Project Based Learning for 20 years. And in that time we have created and honed a framework for defining what great PBL looks like, which we currently call Gold Standard PBL. But over recent years, as interest in and demand for PBL has skyrocketed in classrooms and schools around the nation and world, more and more amazing educators and experts are bringing PBL into their practice. As they add their incredibly diverse talents and experiences to the mix, we are seeing “PBL” as we have understood it evolve and grow.
3 Lessons From Teaching Our First PBL Unit
After attending the Buck Institute for Education’s PBL 101, we embarked on our first Project Based Learning (PBL) unit. At the workshop we learned that if you are just “doing a project,” don’t call it PBL. So one of our goals was to make it gold standard instead of just implementing a cool project. In many ways the results of our PBL unit exceeded our expectations. Our PBL unit focused on exploring the driving question, “How did the floods in South Carolina in October of 2015 affect the human and physical geography?” Our third graders at Saluda Elementary School in Saluda, SC created museum exhibits to answer this driving question.
8 Steps To Design Problem-Based Learning In Your Classroom
What Is Problem-Based Learning? by TeachThought Staff What is problem-based learning? One definition, if we want to start simple, is learning that is based around a problem. That is, the development, analysis, and thinking towards a problem drives student learning forward.
(Rethinking) Makerspaces
Kids have always made in my library. We encouraged digital and visual and dramatic and rhetorical creativity before, during, and after school. But for a while, I’ve questioned the value of using already heavily used real estate to randomly carve out space for a 3D printer, electronics stations and sewing machines. I had my doubts about the makerspace movement in school libraries. A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to chat with Amos Blanton, project manager of the Scratch online community, and a member of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at MIT Media Lab. On his profile Amos notes: I design and sustain creative learning environments for people with agency.
4 Ways to Promote Growth Mindset in PBL
Originally posted on GettingSmart.com. “I can’t do this! I hate geometry! I’m too dumb for this!” In our classroom, the word "can’t" was the worst four-letter word a student could use; after all, even the last three letters of "geometry" insist that you T-R-Y….TRY!
