Project-Based Learning for the 21st Century #15

1. The paper talks about two schools in England that one was not a PBL and the other was. The PBL school out did the other school on the national test in England. This is one exaple of how PBL schools increase students knowledge.
2. It challegences the students to research and and read matterial that are a little bit above the students reading level becasue they want to learn more about the subject they are talking about.
3. The main reason is that thay are doing learning that matters. The students are excited to learn and will remmember it becasue it is relavent to them.
4.The reason PBL and Dewey align so well is that Dewey believe that students build on background knowledge throught the use of a PBL project.
5. We need to assess on real skills and knowledge to help student improve on students background skills and add to new schema. We do not need to just have student spit out the same imforamtion that the teacher stand in front and tells the student they need to know.