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A project is meaningful if it fulfills two criteria. First, students must perceive it as personally meaningful, as a task that matters and that they want to do well. Second, a meaningful project fulfills an educational purpose. Well-designed and well-implemented Project Based Learning (PBL) is meaningful in both ways.

This is a common concern of teachers who are new to Project Based Learning. Things can appear to be going smoothly; students have been engaged by the project, they've been learning content and skills, they've been busy and meeting deadlines… but their thinking is not as in-depth and their final products not as polished as they should be. If this is your experience, it's time to ask yourself some questions:

For the innovation economy, dispositions come into play: readiness to collaborate, attention to multiple perspectives, initiative, persistence, and curiosity. While the content of any learning experience is important, the particular content is irrelevant. What really matters is how students react to it, shape it, or apply it. The purpose of learning in this century is not simply to recite inert knowledge, but, rather, to transform it.1 It is time to change the subject.

This is a lesson plan for a collaborative project involving water. It uses technology tools, and seems to be pretty well thought out.

here's a cool article with a bunch of ways to use pinterest in the classroom

creates a collaborative q & a for any youtube- or vimeo-hosted video

Lilianna, You made my day by sharing this site. First, my husband will love this. He is always looking for how to videos on youtube. I now have it added to my Favorites Bar for him. Second, there was an older gentlemen that was talking to me about computers. He feels they are our enemy and there is no good to them. We share the pros and cons of technology and computers, and I told him about how my husband looks up how to fix things all the time on youtube. He then explained that that is one reason why businesses are closing up. I do agree with his philosophy in some sorts, but it is the way of the world and we need to change with it.

online tool to create collaborative diagrams and flow charts