07/09/2024
When learners engage their work and the world in new and interesting ways, the shift in how they see things grants them access to new(er) opportunities. The fact is that their increase in exposure to new and interesting ideas also increases the number of spaces that those ideas can be expressed within; and vice versa. That fearlessness in curiosity and explorative play is the essence of Project Based Learning. When learners find ways to take advantage of the mindset and the exposure, they can develop the world as they envision.
Infusing play into learning, doesnât make learning fun⌠it makes fun instructional
âA new world engaged. A new opportunity accessed. A new day developedâ
đ¸: Prempeh College, a high school in Ghana, wins the World Robotics Olympiad Challenge, a global robotics competition started in 2004 for young people which now attracts more than 28,000 teams from more than 85 countries around the world
đ¸:Naya Ellis, a freshman at John F. Kennedy High School in New Orleans, was inspired to create her stroke detecting watch in 2024 through a program called STEM NOLA, where K-12 students learn and participate in hands-on science, technology, engineering and math projects
đ¸:Chika Ofili U.K., made a historical discovery by unearthing a new mathematical formula to make the study of mathematics easier to understand. Seeing that one of his homework assignments didnât have a memorable way to decide if a number is divisible by 7, he created and proved his own method