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Project-Based Learning: An Overview
MIT distinguished professor Seymour Papert is among a growing group of scholars who support project-based learning, in which students move from hands-on work to abstract thinking by solving real-world problems. More to this story.
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Release Date:11/1/2001
Running Time: 9 min.
Video Credits
Produced, Written, and Directed by
- Ken Ellis
Associate Producers:
- Leigh Iacobucci
- Diane Curtis
- Roberta Furger
- Sara Armstrong
Editor:
- Karen Sutherland
Camera Crew:
- Alfred Shapiro
- William Turnley
- John Dobovan
- Jeff McGall
- Gabriel Miller
- Lou Trusty
Narrator:
- Susan Blake
Intern:
- Morgan Ho
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- The George Lucas Educational Foundation
- All rights reserved.
PBL for K-2
Submitted by Altamease Ford (not verified) on July 17, 2008 - 11:19.
I am interested in exploring PBL for my kindergarten class. Can anyone share their experiences in this area?
PBL for K-2
Submitted by Diane Demee-Benoit on July 17, 2008 - 13:12.
Response from Edutopia staff:
Hi Altamease,
Here are two examples of project-based learning at the primary level which show how teachers have designed and implemented projects appropriate for young learners:
Voyages of Discovery: Five-Year-Olds Explore Through PBL and accompanying video segment showing PBL in action at Auburn Early Education Center in Alabama.
Another great example comes from Newsome Park Elementary in Newport, VA. The video gives examples from K-5. The accompanying article, More Fun Than a Barrel of . . . Worms?! provides more background and context.
These two Web sites are wonderful resources for teachers interested in PBL:
The Project Approach
The Online Resource for PBL
Hope this is a good start as you explore teaching through project learning!
Sincerely,
Diane Demee-Benoit
Consulting Online Editor, Edutopia.org
The value of project-based learning
Submitted by Janet (not verified) on July 8, 2008 - 08:47.
The video showed a variety of situations involving project-based learning. Students in a number of schools were involved in hands-on experiences. Some were involved in making vehicles, and some were actually diving for various underwater treasures. The students were self-involved, and working with groups. It was very impressive.
The value of project-based learning
Submitted by michele (not verified) on July 8, 2008 - 08:45.
I think that PBL will enhance the students way of thinking. It provides hands on experience, which helps the students become more aware of what they are learning.
What are the disadvantages of project-based learning?
Submitted by Diane Demee-Benoit on May 15, 2008 - 20:14.
In response to Akif ÇEÇE --
There is a growing body of research that shows the advantages of project learning for students and teachers. Some of the challenges of project-based learning include
increased preparation time to come up with the "essential question" for the project and the time to evaluate student work.
These edutopia articles and videos offer some answers:
A New Way to Teach: Begin with the End
Assessment for Understanding: Taking a Deeper Look
The PBL Launch Pad: Worthwhile Projects for High School Students, Part 1
Edutopia's free module on Assessment will provide you with some basic starting points.
Finally, the Web site PBL Online would be an excellent resource for someone interested in learning more about how to do project-based learning.
Overall, teachers I've spoken with who take the project learning approach say they'd never teach in a different way because the benefits far outweigh the costs.
What are disadvantages of project-based learning?
Submitted by Akif ÇEÇE (not verified) on May 15, 2008 - 15:52.
what are disadvantages the project based learning, any idea or article you know?
what is the "pbl" state in the world,, write pls
LA/SS Project Based Learning
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on February 12, 2008 - 12:24.
Has anyone done this with 4th/5th grade language arts or social studies?
Spanish podcast for 5th graders
Submitted by LaVonna Betz (not verified) on April 1, 2008 - 19:44.
We are the only gifted magnet school in St. Louis Public School District. Each of our 5th grade Spanish students have been working diligently to create, illustrate, translate, & narrate an original story which we are bringing to you as a podcast.
TPR
The stories are an outgrowth of the textbook we use in the Spanish Language Progam at Kennard. The textbook borrows heavily from the TPR method of teaching, which is Total Physical Response begun by James Asher in the 1920’s. Basically students learn Spanish by acting it out. The textbook uses simple TPR stories in cartoon form. The podcasts are inspired by these stories.
Many, if not all of our students, have ever done much with computers and some heve never even heard their own voices. So the project was in itself a brand-new learning experience in what they can do with a computer. In some ways I feel like a pioneer with a laptop and a few ideas to help make learning Spanish fun and exciting to my students.
We're still uploading our stories online, so we're still anziously waiting to see ourselfes online! Come visit us at kennardspanish.org and tell us what you think!
project-based learning
Submitted by James Boyer (not verified) on December 18, 2007 - 15:24.
I have had success with PBL, but rarely using the same project with different groups of students. For example, we are currently working on building bridges from file folders in an Honors physics class, and the students are actively engaged and solving problems. Last year we embarked on a plan to save the Leaning Tower of Pisa. In both cases, we tried the other focus (imagining and solving problems in statics) first, but students were reluctant to engage with the project. I believe that the selection of projects is an inexact science--it needs to be shaped by the nature and prior knowledge of the students. This, to me, makes PBL more difficult, as the PBL-using educator needs to have a whole bunch of arrows in his/her quiver prior to implementing a Project-based focus. Hands on is not always Heads on science!
Project Based Learning
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on August 7, 2007 - 15:57.
How might this concept be applied in a high school language arts/English classroom setting?
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