Project Based Learning and Service Learning are very similar. Especially with the philosophy we hold here at Magnify Learning that PBL should be solving an authentic problem. At Magnify Learning we don’t really see a difference between service learning and PBL in a...
Food deserts…I was at an afterschool expo and listened to youth explaining how they were addressing food deserts in their community. Kindergarteners told me the best food for people to eat daily. Middle school youth explained to me how food pantries can...
As the last stop before hitting the workforce for some of our learners, project based learning is a must in higher education. Employers are looking for team members who can collaborate, problem solve, and think critically. There are no companies with 30 employees in a...
Senior Projects, Capstone Project…that last chance to show all that you learned over your educational career. We do our learners a disservice if the first time they are expected to find a problem, solve it, and present it well is their last year of education....
I helped start one of the first PBL middle school programs in the country, and in a large urban public middle school we saw attendance go up, discipline go down, and test scores go up. Learners showed up to school more, did more of what they were supposed to do and...
