Imagine Traveling to Mars
David Thornburg shared the educational Holodeck where students can simulate a mission to Mars or other interactive, immersive simulations. All activities are inquiry-based where students are members of...
View ArticleGetting Back to Learning After Testing
Barbara is working with several middle schools co-developing project-based learning activities. She details the process for a project on Global Climate Change.
View ArticleProject-Based Learning: Replicating Success
Check out the module on Edutopia about Whittier School District in Georgia that used the strategies from High Tech High for project-based learning projects. Barbara adapted the ten tips on PBL and her...
View ArticleWho dunnit?
Barbara is a technology integration coach at two middle schools in Oakland Unified and shares some of the cool projects she is lucky to be co-designing. Project-based learning is the way to go.
View ArticleChanging Teaching and Learning
Concerns Based Adoption Model (CBAM) was adapted for teachers who plan to transform teacher-centered classrooms to student-centered learning. Use the stages to guide change at each level.
View ArticleBuilding Community Schools to Save our Children
No child especially young black males should be left behind. Dropout rates are too high. See how Oakland USD is making a difference and build community schools.
View ArticleInnovation Centers for Real-World Learning
Innovation Centers are Community Learning Centers that focus on local real-world problems and then collaborate globally. Learners are of all ages and learn 24/7 on-site and online.
View ArticleStudent-Centered Learning: Changing Teaching
Teachers can transform their classroom to student-centered learning with the help of a coach and each other when they have collaborative time to review what they teach, examples of projects, and design...
View ArticleStudent-Centered Learning: Meaningful Work
Students want to do meaningful work and purposeful projects. Use questions and have students as co-designers of their learning.
View ArticleMindshift to Learner-Centered Environments
Learner-centered environments don't just happen. They take time, lots of time to change. Barbara shares a coaching strategy that builds teams of teachers who do action research on what works and what...
View ArticleTraveling Toy Animals
Guest Post by Paula Ford @prford5, Kindergarten Teacher, Manuel De Vargas Elementary School, San Jose, CA about collaborative project with her kinderkids and a school in Indiana.
View ArticleTL Talk Radio: Talking about Deeper Learning
Season 3 Episode 7 on TL Talk Radio (March 7, 2017): Leading teaching and learning with Randy Ziegenfuss (@ziegeran) and Lynn Fuini-Hetten (@lfuinihetten) who interviewed me on change, deeper learning,...
View Article5 Tips to Make PBL Personal
Project-based learning (PBL) incorporates the elements of learner-centered environments. When learners are encouraged to ask questions and have a voice about something they are interested in, now...
View ArticleTraveling Toy Animals – the rest of the story
Guest post by Paula Ford @prford5, Kindergarten Teacher at Manuel De Vargas Elementary School in San Jose, CA. This post is a continuation of her post on Traveling Toy Animals with her learners in...
View ArticleInspire Wonderment Through Global Project-Based Learning
Guest Post by Linda Ullah @linda_ullah, Online Instructor, Krause Center for Innovation, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, California In 1970, Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner wrote an article in...
View ArticlePersonal Professional Learning Redefines Thinking, Teaching, and Learning
Guest post: Susan Zanti, M.Ed. Secondary Instructional Coach, Loudoun County Public Schools, VA Education and the way we teach have changed. There is no doubt about it. Are teachers keeping pace with...
View ArticleEpisode #4: Conversations about PBL with Paula Ford
Paula Ford is a Kindergarten teacher in Cupertino, CA. This post includes her podcast and conversation for Episode 4 with Barbara of the Rethinking Learning Podcast series about global project-based...
View ArticleTop 10 Rethinking Learning Posts in 2017
2017 was an interesting year. I decided to go in a new direction this past year to focus on the WHY of learning and even started hosting a podcast. This post is about the blog posts I wrote. I always...
View ArticleRandom Acts of Kindness PBL
Guest Post by Paula Ford @prford5, Kindergarten Teacher, Manuel De Vargas Elementary School, San Jose, CA How can we be kind? The Driving Question for our kindergarten Project Based Learning (PBL) is a...
View ArticleEpisode #28: The Why and The Way of Inquiry and PBL with Ross Cooper
Ross Cooper is the Elementary Principal of T. Baldwin Demarest Elementary School in the Old Tappan School District in New Jersey, co-author of Hacking Project Based Learning and and was the Supervisor...
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