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Project Based Learning (PBL) is an educational approach where students engage in extended projects to investigate real-world problems, fostering critical thinking, creativity, and collaboration. Unlike traditional projects, PBL integrates curriculum and instruction, emphasizing inquiry-based learning and 21st-century skills. This method prepares students for future challenges by connecting their learning to authentic experiences and improving their attitudes toward education.

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Project Based Learning (PBL) is an educational approach where students engage in extended projects to investigate real-world problems, fostering critical thinking, creativity, and collaboration. Unlike traditional projects, PBL integrates curriculum and instruction, emphasizing inquiry-based learning and 21st-century skills. This method prepares students for future challenges by connecting their learning to authentic experiences and improving their attitudes toward education.

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Project Based Learning (PBL)

Project Based Learning is a teaching method in which students gain knowledge and skills by
working for an extended period to investigate and respond to an authentic, engaging, and complex
question, problem, or challenge.
Project Based Learning (PBL) prepares students for academic, personal, and career success, and
prepares young people to rise to the challenges of their lives and the world they will inherit.

In Project Based Learning, teachers make learning come alive for students.
Students work on a project over an extended period of time – from a week up to a semester – that
engages them in solving a real-world problem or answering a complex question. They
demonstrate their knowledge and skills by developing a public product or presentation for a real
audience.
As a result, students develop deep content knowledge as well as critical thinking, creativity, and
communication skills in the context of doing an authentic, meaningful project. Project Based
Learning unleashes a creative energy among students and teachers.

How does PBL differ from “doing a project”?


PBL is becoming widely used in schools and other educational settings, with different varieties
being practised. However, there are key characteristics that differentiate “doing a project” from
engaging in rigorous Project Based Learning.
We find it helpful to distinguish a “dessert project” – a short, intellectually-light project served
up after the teacher covers the content of a unit in the usual way – from a “main course” project,
in which the project is the unit. In PBL, the project is the vehicle for teaching the important
knowledge and skills a student needs to learn. The project contains and frames curriculum and
instruction.
In contrast to dessert projects, PBL requires critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration, and
various forms of communication. To answer a Driving Question and create high-quality work,
students need to do much more than remember information. They need to use higher-order
thinking skills and learn to work as a team.

Why PBL? We Live in a Project-Based World.


The truth is, many in education are recognizing we live in a modern world sustained and
advanced through the successful completion of projects. Or, as Swiss Psychologist Jean Piaget
put it, “knowledge is a consequence of experience.”
It is true! Your weekend chores, an upcoming presentation, or organizing a fundraising event—
they are all projects.
For most modern workers, it will be a series of projects that mark their career rather than years
of service to a specific organization. “Solving real-world issues that matter is important to us as
adults – and it’s important to our students,” explain Lathram, Lenz, and Vander Ark in their
ebook, Preparing Students for a Project-Based World.
In short, if we are to prepare students for success in life, we need to prepare them for a project-
based world.

What are the Essential Elements of PBL?


Although definitions and project parameters may vary from school to school, and PBL is
sometimes used interchangeably with “experiential learning” or “discovery learning,” the
characteristics of project-based learning are clear and constant.
In essence, the PBL model consists of these seven characteristics:
● it focuses the student on a big open-ended question, challenge, or problem to research and
respond to and/or solve,
● it brings what students should academically know, understand, and be able to do into the
equation,
● it is inquiry-based,
● it uses 21st-century skills such as critical thinking, team work, collaboration, and
creativity,
● it adds student choice into the process,
● it provides opportunities for feedback and revision of the plan and the project,
● it requires students to present their problems, research process, methods, and results.

Benefits of PBL
PBL connects students to the real world. PBL prepares students to accept and meet challenges in
the real world, mirroring what professionals do every day.
Instead of short-term memorization strategies, project-based learning provides an opportunity for
students to engage deeply with the target content, bringing about a focus on long-term retention.
PBL also improves student attitudes toward education, thanks to its ability to keep students
engaged. Using the PBL structure leads to building intrinsic motivation because it centres the
process of student learning around a central question or problem and a meaningful outcome.

References:

https://www.pblworks.org/what-is-pbl

https://www.schoology.com/blog/project-based-learning-pbl-benefits-examples-and-
resources

https://www.gettingsmart.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Preparing-Students-for-a-
ProjectBasedWorld-FINAL.pdf

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