Reinventing Project Based Learning: Your Field Guide to Real-World Projects in the Digital Age - Softcover

Boss, Suzie; Krauss, Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1564847217 ISBN 13: 9781564847218

Publisher: ISTE, 2018

Synopsis

This updated edition of the bestselling Reinventing Project-Based Learning offers examples of the latest tools, assessment strategies and promising practices poised to shape education in the future.

This popular ISTE title follows the arc of a project, providing guided opportunities to direct and reflect educators’ own learning and professional development. This book shows how to design authentic projects that make the most of available and emerging technologies.

This new edition:

• Provides examples of how to merge personalized learning, flipped classrooms, and PBL for effective teaching and learning.
• Includes coverage of computational thinking and coding, demonstrating ways to develop new approaches to solving problems as well as new forms of expression.
• Discusses PBL as an equity consideration, with opportunities for personalization and empowerment, addressing issues of social justice and closing the achievement gap.
• Includes coverage on new trends like augmented and virtual reality; and new and updated Spotlights from educators featured in the first edition and others.
• Features deeper focus on Gold Standard and High Quality PBL, the P21 Framework, and ISTE Standards for Students and Educators.

With this book, teachers will come to appreciate the importance of problem-finding and problem-posing — thoughtful activity that needs to precede problem solving in any context.

The companion jump start guide based on this book is Project-Based Learning: Strategies and Tools for Creating Authentic Experiences.

Audience: K-12 classroom teachers, teacher educators

About this title

About the Author

A former teacher in Oregon schools, Jane Krauss divides her time between curriculum and program development for the National Center for Women & Information Technology and professional development for project-based learning in the U.S. and internationally. In her previous role as director of Professional Development Services at ISTE, Krauss managed programs and provided professional development on technology integration to educators around the world. Suzie Boss is a writer and educational consultant who focuses on the power of teaching and learning to improve lives and transform communities. She is the author of 10 books for educators, most recently All Together Now: How to Engage Your Stakeholders in Reimagining School and The Power of a Plant (co-authored with award-winning teacher Stephen Ritz). She contributes regularly to Edutopia and is a member of the National Faculty of the Buck Institute for Education. She has consulted with educators across the U.S. as well as in India, South Korea, South America, and Europe to bring project-based learning and innovation strategies to both traditional classrooms and informal learning settings.

Edition details

• Publisher: ISTE
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1564847217
• ISBN 13: 9781564847218
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 316