[ELTWeekly Volume 8, Issue 12 | July 18, 2016 | ISSN 0975-3036]
When we talk about project-based learning (PBL), we focus our curriculum on finding real-world ways for students to learn problem-solving and communication skills. When doing this, authenticity is key.
When you are first developing a PBL unit, you must begin the journey by establishing an authentic goal. By the end of the unit, you want students to have solved something. Along the way, they will have written, collaborated, created, pitched, discussed, and presented. It sounds overwhelming, especially if you haven’t found that launching pad (authentic goal) in the first place.
I think this is the main reason why the e-NABLE Community Foundationseems to have taken the PBL world by storm.
e-NABLE initially began in 2013 as a simple but powerful matching service between children who might benefit from receiving prosthetic hands and designers and makers who could construct those hands inexpensively and quickly.