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Project-based learning boosts student engagement, understanding

The Hechinger Report

Seventh grade students offer feedback on projects by sixth graders at Stony Brook School, where about 40 students in each grade get interdisciplinary, project-based learning. It’s a cool way to learn something,” Roman said. Instead of learning and taking a test. It’s more free.”.

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A study finds promise in project-based learning for young low-income children

The Hechinger Report

A study of project-based learning found that social studies scores were higher for second-grade students who learned this way, compared to students who were taught traditionally. The project-based kids also had slightly higher reading scores but their writing scores were no different.

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Project-based learning and standardized tests don’t mix

The Hechinger Report

PHILADELPHIA — In a city that’s struggled to meet the educational needs of many of its children, especially its most vulnerable ones, a select group of district high schools is shunning the traditional classroom model in which teachers dispense knowledge from the front of the room and measure progress with tests. I’m into the process.”.

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Farewell, 2020: Lessons Learned

Catlin Tucker

It is a tradition I have continued through the years. 2 Providing a one-size-fits-all experience doesn’t work in any learning landscape. We all have unique interests, learning preferences, histories and life experiences, family dynamics, strengths, and weaknesses. 8 Projects can turn the world into our curriculum.

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How Creative Technology Can Help Students Take on the Future

ED Surge

It’s also important to equip them with professional-quality templates and assets so that the projects they’re creating actually look like professional outputs. Pedagogically, this approach is real-world, authentic, project-based learning. Traditional education has often taught students to swim in a controlled pool.

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How Can the Metaverse Transform Learning?

ED Surge

I integrated project-based learning and technology in all kinds of ways. I asked them to create blogs to interact through blended learning. We must embrace new technology and improve upon it to enhance learning. This is history in the making, and it is exciting to be a part of it! Who’s going to teach them?

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Standardized Tests Aren’t Going Anywhere. So What Do We Do?

Cult of Pedagogy

After all, framed that way, teachers give hundreds of standardized tests a year, even those who do learner-centered assessment, project-based learning, or otherwise collect evidence of student learning in ways that are considered alternative or non-traditional. link] Reese, W. Harvard University Press. Stewart, A.

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