Jeff Robin is a great advocate for PBL. Read more here and here
Jeff talked us through his approach for a mesmorising passionate hour. A couple of things struck me. Firstly that he believes that the real content learning that the students do comes not when the students are doing their projects but when they teach each other about their projects explaining the content behind their ideas. This seems to be benefited by the cross curricular nature of it. Much of the output from the students is art based- as the man says " Engineers draw plans that only communicate with other engineers. Artist communicate" How often do I act as an engineer in teaching.
I popped into his cuurent project the students route was
1. Identify a Physics principle then create a representative picture ( they ar eso much than this he has them choose a genre etc)
2. Then show it works in the real world in a building etc so he showed them Gaudi etc
3. Then find the principle in San Diego and again represent this as a movie or painting.
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