Jen+and+Doug

=What is PBL?= ===media type="youtube" key="VgA1wZhW5TE" height="385" width="480" align="left"Project Based Learning (PBL) is a 21st century way of teaching our students the skills they need to know in order to be successful in the real world. "Project Based Learning allows teachers to create tasks whose complexity and openness mimic problems in the real world." " It presents students with challenges about their own resourcefulness, personal organization, critical abilities and capacity to think which appear in her account to be even more important than the content of what they learn. It induces a degree of “disjunction” (Jarvis, 1987)"===





[|HamletCharacterFacebookPageProject.doc] (PBL using multimedia and social networking)

Teachers need to use PBL as an approach to learning because of a multitude of reasons. All of which are discussed in our text, __Understanding the Digital Generation__. It is a way for teachers to get off the stage and hold the students accountable for their own work, work that forces them to solve real world problems using all of the digital tools available to them.

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