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 | Jun 29, 2015 | All Topics, Project Based Learning
I started to write a post yesterday and then didn’t. No real excuses, just didn’t get there. However, this morning, Cathy Rubin (@cmrubinworld) gave me a shout-out in her Around the World in 30 Days post for June, so I figured out my angle. June 1 –...
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,...