Blogs on Project-Based Learning

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Ken MessersmithApril 19, 2007

One of the instructional strategies often supported on this site is project-based learning. PBL has been at the heart of vocational agriculture programs since the beginning. All vocational agriculture students participate in the Future Farmers of America's Supervised Agricultural Experience Programs, which consist of projects carried out individually or in groups.

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Jim MoultonMarch 14, 2007

A couple of recent incidents have reminded me about how important it is to not take knowledge, things, or people for granted.

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Diane Demee-BenoitFebruary 6, 2007

A thoughtful curriculum centered on project learning is a superior way for students to learn 21st-century skills such as critical thinking, creativity and innovation, problem solving, self-direction, and teamwork, because students must develop and use these skills to complete their projects.

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Ron SmithJanuary 31, 2007

My class has about fifty computers in it, mostly older Apple G3s, but I am in the process of getting some newer ones. A few of my students decided that they would like to experiment with networked gaming, so they asked me if they could bring in a couple of their own computers and set them up. I said, "Sure."

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Sandy MittelsteadtJanuary 10, 2007

As a longtime educator and a classroom English teacher for twenty-seven years, I've seen all kinds of student "bad behavior."

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Anthony BencivengaJanuary 8, 2007

At lunchtime recess on elementary school playgrounds, ball fields, and schoolyards across the nation, the joyful sounds of children at play are often interrupted by shouts of distress: "She took my basketball!" "He cut ahead of me!" "It's my turn!" "You cheated!" "Stop pushing!"

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Jim MoultonDecember 6, 2006

In several of Edutopia's video segments, students and teachers are seen using global-positioning-system (GPS) technology to accurately identify spots on the planet -- not just to locate a city or a town but to pinpoint a bend in a stream, or the precise location of an animal or a plant or a structure.

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Sandy MittelsteadtNovember 30, 2006

On my career-academy journey, which has spanned the last twenty years, I have found that the most demanding and difficult aspect of career-academy development is the curricula.

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