Deeper Learning Educators – Deeper Learning Students
Identifying life/success skills-attitudes and academic content objectives/standards the project forwards and assessing students’ progress on them with formative assessments and summative assessments is basic to quality project-based learning. This is another way of supporting students’ self-agency, as Continue Reading →
Most intrinsically motivating for students is working to solve a real-life challenge. Working to solve a real-life challenge, students gain a sense of agency – they can impact life in Continue Reading →
Quality project based learning can be for any subject, grade level, or ability level. Most intrinsically motivating for students is working to solve a real-life challenge. Especially motivating is when learners know how working to solve the challenge helps people or animals. Equally important, by working to solve a real-life challenge, students gain a sense of agency – they realize they can impact life in a positive way. Here are 50+ examples of project-based learning challenge questions.
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I have seen over and over, and research confirms, that when students are involved in finding answers to relevant challenges their motivation and learning deepen. In Challenge-Solving Projects, problem-based learning Continue Reading →
Challenge-Solving Projects address a real life challenge or a role-played, simulated challenge. As students realize they can effect positive, real-life change – students’ learning goals and future work goals expand. Continue Reading →
Deeper learning is interacting with real world or simulated real world situations, often to solve relevant challenges. Students develop questions, connect with resources, research, challenge-solve, and communicate their work and Continue Reading →
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With reflection, protocols, peer collaboration, group presentations, videos, slides, booklet, online resources and participants’ dedication – teachers, instructional coach and teaching/learning dean, with all grade levels from Maine, New Hampshire, Continue Reading →
High quality project based learning learners work to solve real life challenges. Examples of high quality project based learning topics: To contribute to downtown revitalization efforts, students conducted a study of their Continue Reading →
Edutopia Hewlett Foundation – Deeper Learning New Tech Network Buck Institute for Education Expeditionary Learning Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE)/Developing Assessments of Deeper Learning: The Costs and Continue Reading →