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Looking for partners for a global project? Global School net allows you to search for partners from all around the world. Volunteer your class for projects and look for other classes to work with you.

Project Based Learning using hand held devices.

Nice concise article on project based learning

This website points out the significance of having Driving Questions- DQ's. This helps focus the direct of the project. Good article.

Editor's Note: John Larmer is the Director of Product Development at the Buck Institute for Education. Many teachers and administrators -- not to mention the general public -- might have the wrong impression of PBL. Maybe they have stereotypical views of what a "project" is, or they've seen poor examples of it in the past.

An expert on children and computing, Dr. Seymour Papert is a mathematician and one of the early pioneers of Artificial Intelligence. He is a distinguished professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of major books on children and learning. Here he describes learning environments in which children collaborate around meaningful projects and powerful ideas.

"A place for teachers to share project-based high school curriculum"

A fifth grade project using student drawings and Google Analytics as a vehicle to learn about intellectual property, fair use, and privacy.

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