21st Century Strands & Strategies
Chapter: Strands & Strategies: Deep Dive
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BIE commissioned Common Craft to create a short animated video that explains the
essential elements of Project Based Learning (PBL). This simple video makes the essential
elements of PBL come alive and brings to light the 21st Century skills and competencies
(collaboration, communication, critical thinking) that will enable K-12 students to be
college and career ready as well as effective members of their communities.
Source: Project Based Learning: Explained uploaded on
by BIE
Problem-Based Learning as a teaching
strategy and curricular design began
over thirty years ago at McMaster
University in Canada. Using problems
based on actual clinical cases as focal
points in a medical program evolved
after years of medical faculty and
student frustration with the traditional
lectures and challenging clinical
experiences. Thus, Problem-Based
Learning involves case studies and
simulations presented as "problems." It is more common in the post-secondary
educational setting.
Problem-Based Learning adheres to the following recommended steps:
1.
Presentation of an "ill-structured" (open-ended, "messy") problem
2.
Problem definition or formulation (the problem statement)
