The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2019

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.”.

Project-Based Learning 112

Project-Based Learning Tradition Middle School Social Studies 112

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

More than 200 of you responded to our survey and listed project-based learning (PBL) as a top interest. Pedagogical approaches related to PBL — such as challenge-based learning, problem-based learning, and inquiry-based learning — share common features.

Project-Based Learning 55

Project-Based Learning K-12 Human Rights Middle School 55

TeachThought

JUNE 10, 2024

Papert is interested in how learners engage in a conversation with [their own or other people’s] artifacts, and how these conversations boost self-directed learning, ultimately facilitating the construction of new knowledge. He stresses the importance of tools, media, and context in human development.

Artifacts 316

Artifacts Psychology Project-Based Learning Interactive Learning 316

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In our tech-driven world, the value of human connection can’t be overstated. For example, our middle school program Career Explorations has embedded real-world, industry-specific soft skill exercises, including applied math, graphics literacy and reading comprehension. by demonstrating practical applications of knowledge.

Project-Based Learning 52

Project-Based Learning Middle School High School Critical Thinking 52

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

In a middle school hallway in Charlottesville, Virginia, a pair of sixth grade girls sat shoulder to shoulder on a lime-green settee, creating comic strips that chronicled a year of pandemic schooling. . Traditional middle schools are very authoritarian, controlling environments.” CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. —

Middle School 142

Middle School Psychology Elementary School Junior High 142

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

The figure for students in humanities and natural sciences is even higher, up to 50 percent. Related: Middle schools are experimenting with themes like math, sustainability and the arts. At Ursula Kuhr Schule , students in the school’s woodworking lab build birdhouses and toy cars. But is it all just branding?

Middle School 127

Middle School High School Project-Based Learning Teaching 127

Digital Promise

MAY 19, 2020

For example, Jessica Bibbs-Fox, a teacher in Compton Unified School District, transformed the COVID-19 pandemic into an authentic, project-based learning experience that integrates computational thinking practices into her virtual middle school science class.

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Project-Based Learning Middle School Humanities Research 121