Miriam
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Brainstorming is a powerful tool in project-based learning, fostering creativity, collaboration, and critical thinking. When done effectively, it can lead to innovative solutions and outstanding results. Here’s how to ensure your brainstorming sessions drive innovation and help your team achieve their goals. By setting clear objectives, fostering an open environment, involving diverse participants, setting ground…
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Technology has transformed numerous aspects of our lives, and education is no exception. With the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI), a new era of teaching and learning has emerged. AI tools for education have gained significant popularity, offering innovative solutions to enhance the educational experience for both teachers and students. Here is a list of six…
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Have you been wondering whether you should allow your students to rely heavily on tools like ChatGPT as a substitution to their own education? I was faced with it when I saw Jansen Huang’s declaration that children should no longer bother to learn coding because AI will do it for them. Huang also said that…
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When considering this question, we first need to look at the best methods that can enhance student learning and see how using these AI tools can serve or hinder that purpose. The process of learning starts with a basic awareness of our environment, proceeds to rote memory, working (short term) memory, patterning and connections to…
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Brainstorming, collaboration and project management are some of the most important functionalities in project-based learning, without which projects may easily fail. To engage in meaningful project-based learning, students’ contributions need to be daily informed by the work of the entire team, and how their joint efforts are geared towards the problem at hand. What that…
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One of the most promising applications of AI in education is streamlining project-based learning (PBL) activities. By leveraging AI, educators can make PBL more efficient and effective, enhancing both teaching and learning experiences. In this blog, I will explore practical AI hacks that can help educators streamline their PBL activities. Hack 1: Automate Administrative Tasks…
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The biggest dilemma that teachers are faced with these days is how to change the way they teach to keep students interested, challenged and motivated to think. One solution that can change this picture is project-based learning. From its inception, research has proven project-based learning to be one of the most effective ways to learn.…
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Recent national surveys of young people have shown alarming increases in the prevalence of mental health challenges— in 2019, one in three high school students and half of female students reported persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness, an overall increase of 40% from 2009. The question that we need to ask is why is this…
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It has been less than two years since the release of ChatGPT and teachers are still trying to figure out how to adapt to a technology that abruptly upends the way they used to teach. Given the transformative impact of AI on education and the need of teachers to rethink and redesign their instructional methods,…
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Have your students been struggling to generate a driving question for their project-based learning? Back when I was a computer teacher, the driving question was one of the most complicated things that students had difficulty understanding and then creating. I tried different methods to explain it to them, but sometimes explaining it was more difficult…
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Have you tried assigning group projects to your students that ended up failing miserably. I did. When my students started working on projects in teams, I encountered a series of problems that I was not prepared to solve. I had students complain that they did all the work, while others did nothing. Some high ability…
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Did you try to do project-based learning in your classroom, but had to give it up because it seemed too complex to handle? As much as I have been a great believer that project-based learning was the best way to learn, I had to admit multiple times that my students were struggling with the driving…