{"data":{"ID":1124,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1667256357,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Reclaiming Project-Based Learning","Handle":"reclaiming_project-based_learning","ShortDescription":"The growing popularity of learner-centered approaches, like project-based learning, are susceptible to being hijacked, trivialized, and then dismissed as \"ineffective\" by cynical critics. This session offers a coherent progressive vision of PBL, that withstands scrutiny and produces more productive contexts for learning. Practical strategies and learning adventures will be shared.","Description":"This session is an opportunity to think outside of the rubric and reclaim project-based learning for creative educators and students. The presenter will connect ideas developed in his four decades of work in schools around the world with progressive educational traditions, and lessons from the Reggio Emilia approach in a coherent fashion to inspire educators to embrace the best of what project-based learning has to offer.\r\n\r\nTopics discussed will include the following:\r\n\u2022 Why a project should be a teacher's smallest unit of concern\r\n\u2022 The limitations of instruction\r\n\u2022 A good prompt is worth 1,000 words\r\n\u2022 The subtlety of prompt setting\r\n\u2022 Making the case for project-based learning\r\n\u2022 Projects are not tests\r\n\u2022 Elements of rich projects\r\n\u2022\u00a0Playing a junior version of the whole game\r\n\u2022 Moving beyond inquiry\r\n\u2022 The critical role of computing\r\n\u2022 Teacher as researcher\r\n\u2022 Going big\r\n\u2022 Constructionism\r\n\u2022\u00a0Habits of Mind\r\n\u2022 You don't have to put on a show\r\n\u2022 How do you know they're learning?\r\n\u2022 What do you mean by \"real world?\"","Link":["http:\/\/professorgarystager.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"In addition to sharing examples from learning environments around the world, situated in a historical perspective of PBL's roots, the presenter will engage participants in the process of designing and evaluating effective prompts for project-based learning.","Presenter":["Gary Stager"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Constructing Modern Knowledge"],"PresenterEmail":["gary@stager.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":145,"ScheduleLocationID":26,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":10}}