What I learned this year.

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif6GedSVkubHSNSoEx8eO_HtsofNJ9W_BFwzbloiSxTGfpHdw9KEhhUMBPOnMl-XcsdeoBHeg89YIMXlxP0tXETfcVcYXgvOdm0RS9EQhZAvyggBCkl9PGtX73kBoybCOQ-uTYBTzF0Zs/s1600/what_did_you_learn.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5481539197544262210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif6GedSVkubHSNSoEx8eO_HtsofNJ9W_BFwzbloiSxTGfpHdw9KEhhUMBPOnMl-XcsdeoBHeg89YIMXlxP0tXETfcVcYXgvOdm0RS9EQhZAvyggBCkl9PGtX73kBoybCOQ-uTYBTzF0Zs/s400/what_did_you_learn.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 245px;" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">image from </span><a href="http://lawsagna.typepad.com/lawsagna/learning_styles/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">http://lawsagna.typepad.com/lawsagna/learning_styles/</span></a></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">I just replied to a question Shelly Blake-Plock posted on his blog, </span></span><a href="http://teachpaperless.blogspot.com/2010/06/question-of-day-what-did-you-learn-this.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Teach Paperless</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">, "What did you learn this year?". (His blog is really good, check it out).</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Here is my list of some of the things I learned this year:</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">1. Twitter is a great tool for educators.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">2. My Personal Learning Network has taught me too many things to list.<br />3. Students will continue to surprise me (in great ways)<br />4. Politicians and some administrators will never "get it"<br />5. That I saved a ton of money in my classroom (and working to do it in rest of building/district) by using open source /free resources and cutting down on paper use.<br />6. That I need to take a breath before dealing with classroom management issues when I'm already tired or cranky.<br />7. That my students are awesome (already knew that - but it's nice to see it every year!)<br />8. That I still love being an educator</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">What did you learn this year? Post it here or over at </span></span><a href="http://teachpaperless.blogspot.com/2010/06/question-of-day-what-did-you-learn-this.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Teach Paperless</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></span></div>

What I learned this year.

image from http://lawsagna.typepad.com/lawsagna/learning_styles/ I just replied to a question Shelly Blake-Plock posted on his blog, Teach P...

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Who's responsible for failing students/schools?

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiZsofzqqS7RM0zBIFpOeJ1lDzAFcTuk70jb9XsTegGolvU68UI3Vw_3wjdjqICMxwyoT9S2mN16-SiRqcF6caP-AwZQFPCG_uQOJR4ZsVEaW7YtfT582_Z40J9UJVV3Wm7uTbrDZjCLk/s1600-h/education.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446313788039061090" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiZsofzqqS7RM0zBIFpOeJ1lDzAFcTuk70jb9XsTegGolvU68UI3Vw_3wjdjqICMxwyoT9S2mN16-SiRqcF6caP-AwZQFPCG_uQOJR4ZsVEaW7YtfT582_Z40J9UJVV3Wm7uTbrDZjCLk/s400/education.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 386px;" /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div>There is a lot of controversy right now over the <a href="http://www.projo.com/news/content/central_falls_trustees_vote_02-24-10_EOHI83C_v59.3c21342.html">firing of the entire faculty at Central Falls high school in Rhode Island</a>. The school and students were low performing, so the superintendent didn't like the teachers not agreeing to some proposed changes and fired them all. This has of course led to discussions of who is really responsible for student achievement and for failing students and schools.</div><div><br /></div><div>My initial reaction to the above decision was "are you kidding me?! The feds give failing companies tons of money and the CEO's take big bonuses, but failing schools have to fight for money and teachers are always blamed." I think it is a sad commentary on our country right now that we don't support our teachers more. What about the superintendent? Aren't they the leader? Aren't they responsible too? Don't they get paid an average of 3x what a teacher makes and are expected to turn around failing schools? What about the parents? What about the students themselves?</div><div><br /></div><div>In one of the articles on the Central Falls debacle (my term) students and parents supported the teachers, not the district and were even quoted as saying that it was "the students fault. They don't do their work and don't try." </div><div><br /></div><div>So, who is responsible for failing students and failing schools?</div><div><br /></div><div>EVERYONE! </div><div>The students need to come to school, behave, pay attention, and do their work. </div><div>Parents need to encourage their children, help them with homework, and be involved in their child's education and in the schools. </div><div>Teachers need to come up with engaging lessons and be available for extra help. </div><div>Support staff, such as counselors, have to be available for students and give them support and advice.</div><div>Administrators need to support teachers by enforcing rules and behavior expectations, and by providing the necessary resources.</div><div>Communities need to support the schools and make sure that they are fiscally responsible and funded properly and have the resources needed. </div><div>The Government needs to support schools with funding and make sure education legislation makes sense. They must get the input of educators before making changes. I also believe that the Secretary of Education should be an educator.</div><div><br /></div><div>Everyone is responsible for education. Remember the saying "it takes a village to raise a child"? It is true. Teachers only see a student for 180-183 days a year. In high school, that equates to approximately 200 hours with a specific student. Compare that to 8760 hours in a year. Teachers can not be expected to teach content, basic skills, citizenship, behavior, and more without support from everyone else. </div><div><br /></div><div>Firing teachers because students and schools fail is bad politics and will not change things. Many recent reports have also mentioned that when this has been done in the past, things are actually worse at the schools. Think about it - we are all taught that in order to educate a child we have to make connections with them. School reforms call for students to have a connection to a faculty or staff member for their whole time at a school. That means we need to have contact with these students for a long period of time. By firing all the teachers, the students will have no one that knows them and will feel lost.</div><div><br /></div><div>Yes, there are bad teachers. But we should help them become better teachers. Support them, give them extra training, show them what they are doing wrong. If they are still not doing well, then it may be time for more drastic measures, but we need to help them first. </div><div><br /></div><div>Everyone is responsible for educating our children. To place all the blame on one group is unacceptable and unreasonable. Instead, let's look for the true causes of the students failing and then fix those problems. </div><div><br /></div><div>Here are some of the reasons I see in my district and state:</div><div>Teachers who are burnt out from getting no support from the administration for dealing with severe behavior issues.</div><div>Students are working part time jobs to help support the family.</div><div>Students take care of younger siblings.</div><div>Students don't see the point in education (because mom or dad doesn't care, or big brother makes a lot of money selling drugs, or they don't see the point because no one showed them what education can get them).</div><div>Parents who don't care about school or don't support their child.</div><div>Constantly changing/new initiatives that take time away from learning (and don't do anything to improve learning).</div><div>Initiatives and ideas from administration that have no chance of working, but are emphasized and pushed on teachers. (Getting teachers involved in these ideas earlier would help greatly).</div><div>Lack of resources to effectively teach students (books, supplies, lab equipment).</div><div>Too many interruptions to the school day (announcements, assemblies, required testing and more).</div><div>Behavior issues - disruptive students who are kept in the classroom and school and continue to disrupt the learning process. And their parents don't help the situation.</div><div><br /></div><div>And much, much more.</div><div><br /></div><div>Before trying something to fix the problems, we need to know the root cause of the problem. Then, we have to research that problem and find solutions that have been proven to work. To many schools and systems keep trying things that have never worked. Research the problem, find solutions, try them. If they don't work, try something else, but do research first.</div><div><br /></div><div>Some solutions I have:</div><div>Make sure your teachers are supported and valued. Make sure they have the resources they need in their classroom.</div><div>Give teachers time to work with each other to develop curriculum and research solutions to problems.</div><div>Have teachers, administrators, and counselors talk to students that aren't doing well and find out what's going on in that child's life. Check on their home life. Work to help them with those issues.</div><div>Work with parents to help them get jobs or better jobs, get financial assistance. Get them to come to adult education if they need to finish school. </div><div>Get parents involved in the schools.</div><div>Work with community leaders and businesses to help support learning.</div><div>Support educators in developing new ways to teach. There are plenty of innovative, proven methods out there, but many districts won't change things. (And they wonder why they are failing still).</div><div>Support schools and educators. Work with them, not against them.</div><div><br /></div><div>We need to identify ALL of the issues affecting learning and then find the root cause of the problem and fix it. And I can guarantee you that while some issues are with teachers, most of the problems are not the teachers. Let's work to fix the problems.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Related Articles:</div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_cause_analysis">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_cause_analysis</a></div><div><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/Ubersoldat/root-cause-corrective-action">http://www.slideshare.net/Ubersoldat/root-cause-corrective-action</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://educationaltechnologyguy.blogspot.com/2010/01/should-we-force-students-to-learn.html">http://educationaltechnologyguy.blogspot.com/2010/01/should-we-force-students-to-learn.html</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://educationaltechnologyguy.blogspot.com/2010/01/value-of-educational-technology.html">http://educationaltechnologyguy.blogspot.com/2010/01/value-of-educational-technology.html</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://educationaltechnologyguy.blogspot.com/2009/11/how-technology-can-help-improve.html">http://educationaltechnologyguy.blogspot.com/2009/11/how-technology-can-help-improve.html</a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size:13px;"><br /></span></span></div>

Who's responsible for failing students/schools?

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How to Get Started with Project Based Learning

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigcn_yzU456TR3Z9BA0Da_KPejGPrIPguIouFO88bF9dXTx7yxfYcZA7-jPz2pPsF2IpQtGnos-cqxVMLmz2d7WFQQacgrachY78jd5AY5SZQ5teZ-ZkhFw54qjksMzmTu-eJviIICPWc/s1600-h/workshop.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></span><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334565806763416562" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigcn_yzU456TR3Z9BA0Da_KPejGPrIPguIouFO88bF9dXTx7yxfYcZA7-jPz2pPsF2IpQtGnos-cqxVMLmz2d7WFQQacgrachY78jd5AY5SZQ5teZ-ZkhFw54qjksMzmTu-eJviIICPWc/s320/workshop.jpg" style="text-decoration: underline;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 229px; height: 168px; " /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">(image from education-world.com)<br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 16px; word-spacing: 2px; font-family:Arial;font-size:12px;"><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Originally posted on </span></span><a href="http://www.techlearning.com/blogs_ektid20442.aspx"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">TechLearning magazine.</span></span></a></p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Project Based Learning (PBL) is a great way to teach students content, 21st century skills, and engage them in something fun and educational. I spoke more about PBL in an earlier blog (</span></span><a href="http://www.techlearning.com/blogs_ektid17052.aspx" id="xj:k" style="text-decoration: none; color: maroon; " title="http://www.techlearning.com/blogs_ektid17052.aspx"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">http://www.techlearning.com/blogs_ektid17052.aspx</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> ) and we had some great reader comments (Tech&Learning, May 2009, page 14). Today I'd like to give some tips and ideas on how to get started with PBL in your classroom.<br /></span></span></p><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">First of all, PBL can be used in any classroom, in any subject, at any grade level. Projects can be one class period, or take weeks to complete. Projects can address one curriculum item, or many. It all depends on how you want to implement it and how comfortable it is for you.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">PBL does take planning. You need to look at your curriculum and the objectives you want to accomplish and then plan a project that will lead your students to reach these objectives.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">For instance, I teach physics and developed a project for my classes on structures and stress and strain. The project started with a very short lecture on the topics of stress and strain and the physics behind it. Then the students completed a webQuest about stress and strain that lead them to information about bridges and bridge design. From here, they used bridge design software from West Point to design a bridge that would meet certain requirements I set up. The final step was to build a model of their bridge and see if it would hold the weight. Each group was competing to see who's bridge would hold the most weight. During this project, students learned about stress and strain, structures, applications of physics to real life, web searching, team work, communications, design, and model building.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Another example of PBL is having the students research a topic and present it to the rest of the class through a multimedia presentation, website, or poster. Each topic should be an extension of something you just did in class. In this way, the students teach each other. They will also learn their topic more in depth when they have to be able to explain it to others.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Start small. Think of a lesson you teach and think of a way that the students could do a project to learn that topic instead of sitting in class listening to you talk about it. Try out a one class period project before moving on to a large scale project. Search the internet for examples of projects and adapt them for your class. An internet search of "Project Based Learning" will get a huge list of results for you. I also suggest searching for "WebQuests", "Problem based learning" and "Projects" with your classes subject and grade.</span></span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Another idea for projects is to look at your school or community and see what they need. Art students could research the history of the school and create a wall mural. English students could write a history of the school, or help other groups write letters to lawmakers to get an issue addressed. Music students could write an updated version of the school song, or even a new one. Tech Ed students could build wheelchair ramps, furniture, or other items needed in the community. Biology students could study water quality in a stream nearby or research animal or plant life.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">An idea I got from my wife (a Biology Education student) is to have students create a lesson for other students about a topic. I am planning on using this with my AP Physics students after AP testing this month. They are going to create a physics help guide for the honors physics class. Next year, I'm going to have the honors physics class create a help guide for the general physics class. The students will learn their content better and provide a great resource for fellow students.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">PBL offers teachers a new way to have their students learn content as well as 21st century skills. The students can have fun while learning, and even provide a service for others as part of the project. Be creative and have fun with PBL.<br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Some web resources to get you started:<a href="http://pbl-online.org/" style="text-decoration: none; color: maroon; "></a></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Tech&Learning - </span></span><a href="http://www.techlearning.com/article/1784" style="text-decoration: none; color: maroon; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">http://www.techlearning.com/article/1784</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">,</span></span><a href="http://www.techlearning.com/article/7942" style="text-decoration: none; color: maroon; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">http://www.techlearning.com/article/7942</span></span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Project Based Learning online -</span></span><a href="http://pbl-online.org/" style="text-decoration: none; color: maroon; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> </span></span></a><a href="http://pbl-online.org/" style="text-decoration: none; color: maroon; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">http://pbl-online.org/</span></span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Edutopia - </span></span><a href="http://www.edutopia.org/project-learning" style="text-decoration: none; color: maroon; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">http://www.edutopia.org/project-learning</span></span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">THE Journal - </span></span><a href="http://www.thejournal.com/articles/23893" style="text-decoration: none; color: maroon; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">http://www.thejournal.com/articles/23893</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">,</span></span><a href="http://www.thejournal.com/articles/17124" style="text-decoration: none; color: maroon; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">http://www.thejournal.com/articles/17124</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">, </span></span><a href="http://www.thejournal.com/articles/17105" style="text-decoration: none; color: maroon; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">http://www.thejournal.com/articles/17105</span></span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Checklists for PBL - </span></span><a href="http://pblchecklist.4teachers.org/" style="text-decoration: none; color: maroon; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">http://pblchecklist.4teachers.org/</span></span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">PBL Multimedia Project - </span></span><a href="http://pblmm.k12.ca.us/PBLGuide/WhyPBL.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: maroon; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">http://pblmm.k12.ca.us/PBLGuide/WhyPBL.html</span></span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Intro to PBL - </span></span><a href="http://www.gsn.org/Web/pbl/" style="text-decoration: none; color: maroon; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">http://www.gsn.org/Web/pbl/</span></span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Getting started with PBL - </span></span><a href="http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA011887851033.aspx" style="text-decoration: none; color: maroon; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA011887851033.aspx</span></span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Eduscapes PBL guide - </span></span><a href="http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic43.htm" style="text-decoration: none; color: maroon; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic43.htm</span></span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Please share your project ideas with everyone!</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Updated - another great resource: </span></span><a href="http://21centuryedtech.wordpress.com/2010/01/16/free-project-based-learning-resources-that-will-place-students-at-the-center-of-learning/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">http://21centuryedtech.wordpress.com/2010/01/16/free-project-based-learning-resources-that-will-place-students-at-the-center-of-learning/</span></span></a></div><div><br /></div></span>

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(image from education-world.com) Originally posted on TechLearning magazine. Project Based Learning (PBL) is a great way to teach students c...

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