ASIN: B00DVZZ7DQ
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 106
The Heart Warming True Story of What Became of the Kids when adults, from an Experiment in Project-Based Learning, informal learning.In the 1970s, a motley crew of 4th through 6th graders, were assembled for a bold experiment in a new learning model for the elementary classroom. For this experiment, they chose children for whom the current system either, wasn’t working or wasn’t challenging the student.Some were kids on whom the other teachers had given, some were troublemakers and the rest were bright, but bored students in need of a good challenge. Once assembled, the group was immersed in a project-based, informal learning experiment where the students were free to choose their own areas of interest, work at their own pace, alone or in groups, free of testing or grading. To critics, the question seemed to be, was this recipe for innovative learning, or a formula for disaster.This ...
