Make That Desert Project More PBL’y

http://goo.gl/XqZSjZ Friend of mine had their son bring home a “project” to make a cell membrane.  I sighed. But then I thought about how the teacher could have done something with the same material. And it hit me – science teachers need to see how to take that internet or youtube project and make it […]

Tabs I Have Open 1-20-14

My Small List of Tabs Each month I want to talk about “Tabs I have Open.” So here is what I had open on January 20th 2014: Starting in the middle I had BIE.org open. (Full disclosure, I am on the BIE National Faculty.) Their new website design really makes for a great place for every […]

If You Could Only Pick One (New Year’s Resolution)

http://goo.gl/H8nyX2 I just read a post by an educator, Tom Whitby, who I have known for about 6 years and have only met once. His post was entitled Year End Resolution Failure and, as the name implies, looked at why we so often fail at meeting our New Year’s Resolutions. His premise was that we […]

The Ninth Essential Element of PBL

BIE.org I am about to work in my last co-facilitation with the Buck Institute for Education (BIE.org) doing what they call a PBL 101. A basic, 3-day, course in the planning, managing and assessing of a PBL project. Within a project most people can agree that there are certain items that make it successful and […]

Why Are You Trying to be Like Us?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27594459@N04/4569339597/      Too often I hear “Can you teach me how to do PBL?”  Or, “I would love to be in a school like your school.”  But PBL is not the same in every school.  It’s not even the same in every classroom in my school.  PBL is a way of teaching that should, […]