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"In January 2014, the Fox Chapel Area School District will be initiating a pilot program to foster project-based leaning using iPads. In the first year, seventh grade students at Dorseyville Middle School will be equipped iPads in order to deepen content knowledge and understanding. Learning through experience and investigation, the District desires to strengthen learning and increase engagement, inspiration, and accessibility."

In Project Based Learning (PBL), students go through an extended process of inquiry in response to a complex question, problem, or challenge. While allowing for some degree of student "voice and choice," rigorous projects are carefully planned, managed, a

"Join the maker movement! There's a technological and creative revolution underway. Amazing new tools, materials and skills turn us all into makers. Using technology to make, repair or customize the things we need brings engineering, design and computer science to the masses. Fortunately for educators, this maker movement overlaps with the natural inclinations of children and the power of learning by doing. The active learner is at the center of the learning process, amplifying the best traditions of progressive education. This book helps educators bring the exciting opportunities of the maker movement to every classroom."