Digital Age PBL

challengebasedlearning.org is a social networking site for educators and students interested in Challenge Based Learning (CBL) which is Apple's take on PBL. This is a page of resources created by educators. For a quick reference of what CBL is, check out this article: https://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7080.pdf

Here is a comprehensive guide to PBL created by the National Academy Foundation and Pearson Education

I like how it says to "lecture sometimes." After meeting a lot of resistance with an active learning strategy, I decided to bring back some lecture time to make students feel more comfortable and confident with the content prior to active learning processes. It worked wonders!

This is a great article about conducting professional development workshops for teachers through PBL. Too often, as the article notes, professional development is delivered through direct instruction, but then those who put on the PD expect teachers to do things different in their own classrooms. PD specialists must model what they expect their students - which happen to be teachers - to do in their own classrooms.

This is the resource document generated from a 2015 ISTE session on PBL. The session went through eqch part of the project cycle and discussed strategies /tools.

This is a great resource that goes through all steps of PBL and also provides examples.

Stephen Ritz writes about Project Based Learning

Excellent case study about teachers implementing PBL in their classrooms. Introduces project-based learning and goes through the process and even the teacher's thoughts about PBL afterwords.

A detailed project overview of a nutrition project, provided by the Buck Institute of Education.

Tech tools for PBL