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Teaching for Tomorrow

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21st Century Skills

The commonly accepted descriptions of 21st Century Skills provide support for a rationale for PBL because these skills are exactly what is needed for successful PBL. The following excerpt from Ted McCain's "leadership" handout is from 2002 which presages some of the more recent publications and websites on this:

• Information technology skills- it is important that all students have the skills required to use the technology that is driving the… Continue

Posted by Demetri Orlando on November 7, 2008 at 3:30pm

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Mummified Chickens, Mutant Frogs and Rockets to the Moon

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Tim Bedley's Class In Action

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Learning in Today's World

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This network is relatively dormant and needs administrators. If anyone is interested in taking on an administrative role, please contact Demetri.

Welcome to this network for project and problem based learning. We seek to connect educators interested in pursuing this pedagogy. Please join in! If you haven't yet read Ted McCain's Teaching for Tomorrow, it's a wonderful introduction and rationale for PBL. The heart of this site is the discussion forums, but there is also blogging, photos, videos, shared bookmarks, and news feeds. It would be helpful to build a list of examples of PBL, so if you have implemented any PBL lessons in your teaching, please consider describing them here.