October 11, 2023 In my 2009 Project Based Learning Design and Coaching Guide, I speculated about the longevity of Project Based Learning. I titled my introductory paragraph ‘PBL: A Bridge
Summer Series 4: Volumes have been written about the PBL approach to student learning over the past 25 years. What you will read here is not more of the same,
July 7, 2021 & May 24, 2023 The idea that a teacher today is a ‘guide on the side’ is now hardwired into nearly every conversation about the future of
March 10, 2023 In this podcast, I speak with Mark Barnett, Learning Experience Designer, PBL consultant, maker space leader, machine learning scholar… a renaissance man in the world of education.
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
In the first article for PBL Week, I made the argument that PBL offers educators a path to transform education from a test-based enterprise into a strengths-based approach that supports
In the U.S. educational system, July is always a good month to take time off, relax a bit, and reflect on the coming academic year. I know many of you
June 25, 2021 After being sent home last March the world has shifted dramatically. The assumptions that were held as true seem old and antiquated. Educators have been on the
The primary reason I began to transition my Humanities classes to a Project-Based Learning program was to improve student engagement. I was struggling to keep my students motivated and working
One of the enduring conversations PBL educators have about project-based learning is how to differentiate a project from PBL. One distinguishing marker—probably the best differentiator—is that PBL uses a Driving