Our team is dedicated to transforming education from a lecture-based, teacher-centered 1950s-style institution dependent on rote memorization, to a project-based student-centered journey focused on learning crucial 21st-century skills through engineering, experimentation, and the real-world application of math and science skills.
We wanted, in the words of Ron Berger, an American teacher and advocate of project-based learning, students to create "beautiful work", and the way to do this is to give them something meaningful to do.
There are no ringing class bells or six-period school days at Downtown; the curriculum is "project-based," meaning students choose one course each semester to fulfill all of their academic requirements.
Through project-based learning, students will have the opportunity to develop understanding by experimentation or play and workshops will emphasize immersion, rather than memorization.
In this hands-on, project-based class, students will experience group creativity and team-based design by using techniques from across the disciplines of business, theatre, design, and art practice.
The authors define the basic integrative terms of a modular program such as "project-based", "innovative", "student-centered".
Filming a video was a natural step for the students: the charter school, which includes grades 9 through 12 and opened in the fall of 2010, is keen on what its principal, Nicholas Tishuk, described as project-based learning, and students previously put together a video after a state senator, Jeffrey D. Klein of the Bronx, met with students last month to discuss cyber-bullying.
Project-based learning engages students in problem solving through artefact design.
Are we creating path-breaking project-based curriculums for students or are we assigning problems No. 1 to 20 in a textbook?
Other academic institutions use project-based learning, and students at technical powerhouses like Stanford, M.I.T. and the California Institute of Technology are busy inventing new energy products and approaches.
