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Project-based learning offers a host of benefits to youth during the academic day, but active learning doesn't have to stop when school's out. A new movement is underway to encourage PBL during summer vacations and after-school hours. Making PBL part of out-of-school time gives youth new opportunities to become leaders, thinkers, and problem-solvers.

I recently spent three days with about 25 educators gathered for a Foundations of Innovation workshop in Detroit. This post describes a few take-aways. The experience has me thinking about differences/distinctions between PBL and design thinking.

Resources for projects relating to 9/11 anniversary in which students examine artifacts, conduct oral histories, and think critically about media.

Here's a short-term project idea: Stop Bullying: Speak Up Comic Challenge takes on the subject of bullying with student-created comic strips. The challenge runs throughout October, using Bitstrips for Schools as a platform for comic creation. There's a gallery for publishing student work online, and best pieces will be published in a stop-bullying anthology.

Anyone who wonders whether project-based learning can deliver rigorous, meaningful learning should pay attention to the lessons that emerged from a remarkable project called Dots in Blue Water.

This project is an awesome example of how far students can go with real-world challenges. And it all started because a teacher was wise enough to take a student's question seriously.