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Project-based learning is a methodology that allows learners to develop knowledge and skills from the bottom up in the process of a large-scale project that deals with issues and problems relevant to them. Project-based learning is a great opportunity for learners to tackle a problem from many perspectives and integrate knowledge from diverse disciplines. Here are our writings on project-based learning, the workshops we offer on the methodology and examples of how we have employed it in the past.
We bear enormous responsibility for how we use the past to shape the future … in order to become worthy ancestors to the as yet unborn collective children. The stakes are high: the archive at once produces and destabilises the nation, and the challenge to the worthy ancestor is to…
Continue readingImagine 150 Grade 8 & 9 learners in a hall playing a game they don’t know the rules to. They have to work together in teams to figure out the hidden rules of the game and then try to win it. There is minimal instruction. Learners have to do something,…
Continue readingIn 2018 we had the great pleasure of working with the dynamic Delia Kench and the staff of St Benedict’s on a three-day workshop that aimed at encouraging learners to think deeply, plan strategically and explore the skills associated with design – engaging some of the transferable skills valued in…
Continue readingLearners at Sacred Heart College discover the principles of evolution by natural selection from the bottom up by playing a MindBurst boardgame. The Evolution Game was originally developed for the Integrated Studies workshops on the 4th Industrial Revolution at Sacred Heart College. It was focused on engaging learners in knowledge…
Continue readingThe tables are covered with thin plastic sheets like those in an evidence lab. Before each chair sits a pair of latex gloves, and on the floor next to each table waits a black dustbin bag. This is the scene that has faced learners and teachers as they arrive…
Continue readingWe invite you to go on a deep dive with us into the process of designing and facilitating project-based learning, by exploring one project in some detail. In 2017, in collaboration with Lorraine Srage, Dino Angelou and Caryn Horowitz we facilitated the #iexist exhibition with Grade 8 and 9 learners…
Continue readingProject-based learning is a buzzword we hear often and too often it is thought of as a free-for-all in which learners are left unguided in an undirected project. However, practising project-based learning properly requires rigour. It requires us to be explicit about the skills we want for our learners and…
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