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PBL comprises teaching methods that actively engage people in their own learning and in the real world. Active learning involves creating learning experiences differently so that students engage in exploration of the content and take responsibility for their own learning. Students reach explicit targets in different ways, which can result in increased student effort and a higher quality of work. PBL incorporates interesting and relevant topics, issues, and challenges; interaction with the teacher; and discussions and debates with peers, educators, and others into larger-scale projects with multiple learning targets and standards, and it usually involves technology and student presentations.
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Too often, "meaning-lite" activities like having students research an assigned topic and create a pretty poster about it are what passes for projects in schools. In this Educational Leadership article from September 2010, John Larmer and John R. Mergendoller from the Buck Institute for Education provide seven elements that every meaningful project needs to have.
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How do you get students to engage and participate in their own learning? In this suite of resources from Pérsida Himmele and William Himmele, you'll find 51 easy-to-use, classroom-tested alternatives to the "stand-and-deliver" teaching techniques that cause so many students to tune out or drop out.
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To combat its overwhelming social and economic problems, the Cleveland Metropolitan School District is creating a school that incorporates a project-based learning method. Will project-based learning turn this school system around?
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