July 13, 2021 In our last post we provided an analysis of Dewey’s definition of “critical thinking.” Generally, critical thinking is the process by which one defines a problem and
It is a common phrase amongst educators that students should be taught how to think and not what to think. Most would agree that one particularly important skill that students
Introduces the basic vocabulary of arguments: premise, objection, main claim, and objection.
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July 9, 2021 This year we faced an incredible number of challenges from distance learning to plexiglass, but the lessons from the spring of 2020 have been learned. We must
Led by Thom Markham, Founder & CEO, PBL Global, is a psychologist, educator, author, speaker, and internationally respected consultant to schools focused on project based learning, 21st century skills, innovation,
I began the week with the question What is Real PBL? In my view, it’s about to get very real — in fact, possibly too real for comfort. Here’s what
Joel Backon and Thom Markham discuss a key question facing many educators: How do you make the shift to becoming a PBL teacher? Thom offers an unexpected explanation; it’s about
Our superpower is ethical dilemmas, what’s yours? As teachers of middle school students, we discovered that embedding a real-life problem into our unit of work gave students a way to