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Thursday, January 23, 2003
Project-Based Learning: a Primer - Gwen Solomon, techLearning
When students are challenged to get to work solving real-life problems, the whole world becomes a classroom. Here we offer a guide for getting started. Walk into team teachers Mike Smith and David Ross's interdisciplinary classroom at Napa New Technology High School in California and you will see students at work-writing in online journals, doing research on the Internet, meeting in groups to plan and create Web sites and digital media presentations, and evaluating their peers for collaboration and presentation skills. This setting and these types of activities have a name and a purpose. It's called project-based learning, and it's designed to engage students and empower them with responsibility for their own education in ways unheard of in traditional classrooms.
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