Reinventing Project-Based Learning: Your Field Guide to Real-World Projects in the Digital Age

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This updated edition of the bestselling Reinventing Project-Based Learning offers examples of the latest tools, assessment strategies and promising practices poised to shape education in the future. This popular ISTE title follows the arc of a project, providing guided opportunities to direct and reflect educators' own learning and professional development. This book shows how to design authentic projects that make the most of available and emerging technologies. This new edition: Provides examples of how to merge personalized learning, flipped classrooms, and PBL for effective teaching and learning.Includes coverage of computational thinking and coding, demonstrating ways to develop new approaches to solving problems as well as new forms of expression.Discusses PBL as an equity consideration, with opportunities for personalization and empowerment, addressing issues of social justice and closing the achievement gap.Includes coverage on new trends like augmented and virtual reality; and new and updated Spotlights from educators featured in the first edition and others.Features deeper focus on Gold Standard and High Quality PBL, the P21 Framework, and ISTE Standards for Students and Educators.With this book, teachers will come to appreciate the importance of problem-finding and problem-posing -- thoughtful activity that needs to precede problem solving in any context. The companion jump start guide based on this book is Project-Based Learning: Strategies and Tools for Creating Authentic Experiences. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156484238X
• ISBN13: 9781564842381
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: International Society for Technology in Educa
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.9" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Recognizing the paradigm shift

I appreciate 'Reinventing PBL' for many reasons, but the one that stands out is the recognition by the authors that isolated good teachers within 20th century learning environments is not enough nor the answer. As the book articulates, there needs to be a paradigm shift of how content, assessment and workflow are managed. As a former educator and current advocate of better ways for teaching and learning, I too often see implementation...

MUST BUY

Finally a resource for the 21st century - this book ties in DIGITAL LITERACY SKILLS with Project Based Learning. Contains AWESOME resources and ways to get students thinking! Totally worth the money - even recommended my district buy it for us all and we do a book study! Way to integrate technology naturally into the curriculum.

Lots of Current Learning Trends

Reinventing Project based learning by Susie Boss and Jane Krauss is a well organized compendium of journalism and communication on the leading edge of current technology trends. They have used the most current Web 2.0 trends of communication and collaboration on the web. The book is a great snapshot in time of the current web development state. It appears that the authors believe authentic learning happens when you examine...

Project Based Learning for the Modern Classroom

Full Disclosure: The authors mentioned my classroom in this book. I believe that this book gives an exceptional overview of project based learning in the modern classroom. From the up front planning, to the tools, to the nature of managing global collaborative projects that link classrooms like mine with classrooms around the world (we've partnered with classrooms in Bangladesh, China, Qatar, Austria, Australia, and others...