by brholland | Feb 25, 2016 | All Topics, Design Thinking, Innovation, Project Based Learning
While project-based learning has existed for decades, design thinking has recently entered the education lexicon, even though its history can be traced back to Herbert A. Simon’s 1969 book The Sciences of the Artificial. So why the resurgence of these ideas?...
by brholland | Oct 21, 2015 | All Topics, Future Learning, Innovation
Thanks to everyone who came to my sessions today at the MassCUE conference. Whether you are looking for more materials, or curious about what I talked about, keep reading. The Future of Learning I kicked off the morning with this session. Admittedly, I tried this...
by brholland | Jun 16, 2015 | All Topics
Funny thing about this post… I wrote it MONTHS ago. However, Edutopia said that people were getting fried in May and decided to sit on it for a bit. I will say that this post was a bit of a team effort. Major thanks to Suzy Brooks, Jen Carey, and Sabba Quidwai...
by brholland | Apr 14, 2015 | All Topics, Project Based Learning
This year, Greg Kulowiec and I added a Project Based Learning (PBL) module to our EdTechTeacher T21 Online Courses. While reading through the discussions, I found two recurring themes of interest: There was still a lot of confusion about the difference between Project...
by brholland | Apr 10, 2015 | All Topics, Project Based Learning
Regularly, teachers tell me that they don’t feel as though they have time for project-based learning (PBL). While they like the idea in theory, they can’t see a way to realistically “fit it in” with their curriculum given constraints of time,...