Seven Strategies for Getting the Most Out of Peer Feedback
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How Arts Practices Can be the Foundation for Teaching and Learning
Please find the article link here. What I’m saying is, what are the tools for representation in mathematics? And how do those tools afford you to represent the idea or concept, and then what happens when you share those representations with an audience? What kind of feedback do you get? Does that give you an […]
What Happens if Students Don’t Finish Their Projects?
One of the most common questions I hear from teachers who are first starting out in project-based learning is, “What do I do about students who don’t finish their projects?” There are some proactive measures we can take. For example, we can use a pre-mortem to help students ask, “What could go wrong?” before they […]
Allison Zmuda interviews Dr. Christopher Emdin: STEM STEAM Make Dream! (10 minute snap shot)
Please find the link here. (10 minute clip) In case you aren’t familiar with Dr. Emdin, know that he is an internationally acclaimed author, speaker, scientist, advocate, teacher, and connector, and his new book – STEM, STEAM, Make, Dream – starts with a call to action to “awaken the spirit of young people” as a way to […]
The Power of Designing for Belonging: Article and Podcast
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A Troubling Lack of Diversity in K-12 Educational Materials
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Students Need to Own the Project Management Process in PBL
The Need for Project Management Chances are you’ve seen this scenario before. You give your students three weeks to work on a collaborative project. You start out with total buy-in. They’re excited about what they will create. But a week later, you run into issues. Students aren’t making any progress. One group has barely even […]
Yes! Field Trips are Worth the Effort!
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PBL by Design: Exploring the overlap of PBL and Design Thinking
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Protocols to Help Students with Research in PBL
An Expansive View of Research When we think of research, it’s easy to jump straight into online research. We often imagine it as something that older students do. However, toddlers are researchers because the process of asking questions and finding answers is one of the earliest skills we develop as humans. If you’ve ever spent […]