Learning with Projects

Project Based Learning in a Global Classroom is about as close as a student can get to the real world - while being in school all day! Keeping a project atmosphere alive in the classroom means that students stay open-minded about assignments and discussions, recognizing that everyone in the room knows something about something, and nobody knows everything about everything - even the teacher! Hmmm so that means that the knowledge is distributed among all of us! Students' great ideas often reshape our whole lesson plans! Kids use their thinking skills and communicate, plan, problem solve, create, and evaluate.

Here are some adventures, projects, and partners my classes have played with. (See Stuart Brown on TED for more on play.) (Don't forget Lev Vygotsky and his observations of kids' intellectual levels rising while immersed in play).

The KHQA TV crew came to class to talk to us about our upcoming journey to
Taipei for the International Summer Camp at Kang Chiao Bilingual School.