In this first three-part post, John Larmer describes how he and co-author Susie Boss answered the question in their newly published book, 'PBL for 21st Century Success: Teaching Critical Thinking, Collaboration, Communication, and Creativity'. In the next post, Deborah Esparza will review the book from "the field". For the final post, co-author Susie Boss has been invited to explain why she and John choose this topic.
Suzie Boss from Edutopia will be hosting a session called "Ripped from the Headlines" at ISTE 2011. She will be discussing her approach to using real world news events in the classroom.
It's a practical guide to building 21st century-student competency in the "4 C's" - critical thinking, collaboration, communication, and creativity/innovation. The book is designed for middle school and high school teachers, instructional coaches, and school leaders. It also shows how the 4 C's in a PBL context align with the Common Core State Standards.
Sample projects, CCSS-aligned 4 C's rubrics, tips for technology in projects, notes for school leaders on building support for 21st century learning with PBL.
Authors: Suzie Boss, author and BIE National Faculty, and John Larmer, Editor-in-Chief, BIE
By simulating a business launch, students engage in critical thinking and deepen their financial literacy. They gain experience collaborating with team members and networking with outside experts.
This blog is an excerpt from the book Bringing Innovation to School: Empowering Students to Thrive in a Changing World, published June 2012 by Solution Tree.
In this Edutopia post, I share ideas from teachers who are using today's headlines to design relevant projects. The challenges: maintaining student attention once the news cycle ends, and going deep into content areas. Pls share more ideas in comments.
This is a ning network of researchers and collaborator who studing the recent book by Suzie Boss and Jane Krauss called Reinventing Project Based Learning in the Digital Classroom. The discussion was rich as were examples, barriers, lessons learned and support for transforming istruction to pbl.
Better with Practice: PBL Implementation Tips from the Field is a Webinar series of three sessions in February and March 2010. The first session topic is How to Create a Culture of Inquiry in the PBL Classroom. We seek your input in shaping the conversation.
First in a two-part series for Edutopia, this post looks at entry events in PBL (check out the video from Manor New Tech HS to see a good one in action). Part 2 looks at the other bookend: culminating events.
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