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PROJECT BASED LEARNING
-- Students as Investigators
"Real life learning is meaningful learning: initiated, driven and executed by students, guided and supported by teachers, that breaks down the walls of the classroom and allows schools to be part of real life now."
Laurette Rogers, formally with the Autodesk Foundation
The Autodesk Foundation, a major supporter and developer of Project Based Learning (PBL) practices, recognizes that the student outcomes from these learning practices reflect important life skills. As students plan, implement, and evaluate community-based, experiential projects, they will develop essential skills required in the workplace of the 21st century. According to Autodesk, students will become:
Implementers and Performers
Contributors and Supporters
Problem Finders and Solvers
Initiators and Organizers
Planners and Producers
Team Members and Partners
Communicators and Listeners
Materials developed by Autodesk provide a clear description of PBL concepts and practices:
Learning experiences that engage students in complex, real-world projects through which they develop and apply skills and knowledge
A strategy which recognizes that significant learning taps students' inherent drive to learn, capacity to execute complex work, and the need to be taken seriously
Learning in which the results are not predetermined or fully predictable
Learning which requires students to draw from a variety of information sources and disciplines in order to solve problems
Learning which requires students to coordinate time, work schedules, and project outcomes in order to accomplish goals on a predicted time schedule
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