this is a great video

Hi, I would like to use this video in a power point presentation explain PBL.

this video basically sums up how i feel about learning. if all learning could take place like this the education level in the united states is sure to rise without a doubt in my mind. Its the hands on learning that helps us retain information better because we are actually doing something to obtain the answer we need or want. It is always better to experience something for yourself rather than being taught about it and never truly understanding the whole concept of what is being taught. if this type of hands on learning can be applied to math i feel that my math skills will definantly be increased if it is put in a real life situation where i would need it or just motivate people enough to become interested in the concept of what is being taught. Thus letting them go into depth about what they are learning and themselves basically teach themselves while being guided along the way.

The video was very informative. I'm sure that this method will really work and enhance the learning of the students. I myself would always like to learn through experience, not just by memorizing theories.

Great Presentation.

As a 28 year veteran of Project Based Learning via CTE, I say it is about time the "academic" courses jumped on board. This coming school year, I am leaving a comprehensive public high school to open a Career and Technical Academy, and starting the Fashion Design Program. CTE teachers have always used Math, English, Science and Social Studies in their courses--- it is a natural. I think CTE is finally getting the respect it so deserves, and rightly so. Throughout my career, I have seen the full spectrum of what society thought was important in regards to Voc Ed, Occ. Ed or now as it is known CTE. In college I was encouraged to get a teaching minor to make me more marketable. I refused. I may not have been too practical at that point, but 28 years later, I would not change a thing.I know we make a difference.

Glenna Gaudy
Fashion Design Program Leader
Southwest Career and Technical Academy (High School)
Las Vegas, NV
Clark County School District

Finally, folks are seeing what we have been doing for years and jumping onboard. Students have always learned by hands-on in the Voc Ed / CTE / I.A. fields before. We did incorporate the academics but nobody acknowledged it, or believed us. We'll take it now and appreciate any support in the future. Our students need it. We as a nation have let our kids down for the past 20+ years not incorporating the "shop" classes and we have changed of late. As early as the mid 90's we were using CNC applications. Just no justification for the money spent. Now we'll take it.

PBL is a winderful idea, contexualized learning, brainstorming and problem solving imparts the learners sense of social usefulness and responsibility.They feel that they have smething to do with education.I, being an educator feel that the students are fed up with traditional talk and chalk method of teaching and one-man-show type of teaching.The only thing they want is the change and the acknowledgement of their significant roles as learners and as social entity.

Ptoject Based Learning is quite a wonderful idea,I thnk that we all teacher community must find and apply new ways of teaching/ learning.Being a language teacher, I feel very excited that how I will make my students learn to work on project inducting interactive learning,group work and group dynamics.In Pakistani Government-run institutions,PBL is quite a new idea; it is not yet integrated in curriculum and teachers are not trained as well.Intel Teach took the first step and trained few of the teachers, of whichI am the one and I really enjoyed working on project and I resolve to make my students learn this new technique.
Regards
Rukhsana