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compare and contrast of tradition vs. PBL teaching and learning

The educational assessment tests states use today have two fundamental flaws: They encourage the sort of mind-numbing drill-and-kill teaching educators (and students) despise, and, just as important, they don't tell us much about the quality of student learning.

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GeoGreeting from Kevin Hodgson, @dogtrax, for Day in a Sentence project; many learning/teaching/professional development opportunities here.

highly effective instructional model; developed by Rodger Bybee through BSCS to help STEM teachers teach through inquiry more effectively; based on previous research in this area; discussed here.

Module from Edutopia on project based learning.

New ISTE SIG for Education in Virtual Environments