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Problem-based learning helped boost my underserved students’ engagement

eSchool News

As a physical education teacher in an underserved community, finding ways to connect with my classes during the pandemic and a time of remote learning was challenging.

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Elevating Math Education Through Problem-Based Learning

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Real-World, Meaningful Problems This kind of scenario — linking the drama of mountaineering with work on percentages in middle school math — can effectively be used in a problem-based learning (PBL) approach in the classroom. And that's how people learn math. You may have heard a lot about PBL in recent years.

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Collaboration Is Key for Problem-Based Learning

EdTech Magazine

By David Hutchins CoSN report highlights the need for a nimble partnership between curriculum and IT.

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Why we should be teaching students economic literacy

eSchool News

Related : 3 reasons literacy is essential in child development How problem-based learning helped boost my underserved students’ engagement.

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How 3D printing is changing education

eSchool News

For example, 57 percent of respondents stated that they used 3D printing for student-designed prototypes for problem-based learning projects, while 36 percent used 3D printed parts for specific lessons as a way to increase engagement.

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STEM learning offers unique rewards, despite challenges

eSchool News

Teachers also told us that implementing the problem-based learning (PBL) techniques utilized in their Samsung Solve for Tomorrow STEM projects helped counteract the negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on education at their schools.

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Why educational robotics is a critical STEM learning tool

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Early STEM exposure–and successes or failures in STEM learning–can often make or break a child’s willingness to participate in STEM learning. This motivates students to tackle more difficult challenges.

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