Experiential Learning Depot

JULY 24, 2023

Keep reading to take a look at project-based learning examples designed and executed either by my high school students or my own elementary kids at home. It can be a challenge to wrap one’s mind around what student-led project-based learning might look like in reality. . ​This blog post does just that.

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The Scholarly Teacher

APRIL 27, 2022

Refer individual students to selected services according to their specific need. Tip 2: Develop Students’ Professional Identities I contribute to my university’s teacher preparation program by offering geography courses to prepare pre-service education majors to teach K-12 social studies curricula. Penguin Books.

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Hope College Network

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

For me, an international student from Nigeria, building a sense of community was an important aspect of what I set out to do in the U.S., My first year was marked by my significant involvement in Hope’s Phelps Scholars Program, which is a first-year program that helps students develop the tools needed to navigate our multicultural world.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 3, 2023

If ChatGPT can produce well-written answers to college-level exams, what’s to prevent students from using it to cheat? But unless commercialization limits the growth potential of AI (or the Elon Musks of the world succeed in somehow halting its development), these debates are likely moot. Ever since ChatGPT 3.5 And quickly.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 30, 2023

Someone mentioned that in the K-12 world, students are taught—sometimes deliberately, sometimes by default—that the book they’re reading is true. It involves the student, or reader, seeing themselves as peers with the producers of the work rather than either being unworthy of the wisdom or posing as a hanging judge.

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Experiential Learning Depot

JULY 5, 2023

That is student-directed project-based learning. What components of PBL design do students need to consider when designing and leading their own PBLs? Giving students the freedom to make their own choices along this PBL framework takes learning to another level. Students develop the tools to manage all of life's projects.

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Experiential Learning Depot

MARCH 4, 2023

Have students browse notable historical photographs associated with women’s rights movements, choose one photo, and recreate that photo with their own set, props, costumes, and models. Compile the photos and descriptions into a gallery and invite community members to view student work. Women’s History Month: Yay or Nay?

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eLiterate

DECEMBER 16, 2022

ChatGPT is creating all kinds of buzz about students cheating on essays. If I had a professor who had (in my judgment) given me a coloring book and was going to grade me on whether I colored inside the lines, that triggered my worst adolescent self. So it got me thinking. Absolutely. One hundred percent. Cheating is a state of mind.

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Experiential Learning Depot

AUGUST 6, 2024

Experiential learning is a profound and life-changing teaching strategy with a laundry list of benefits attached, but working with those that are resistant to the craft can be draining, leaving you with little choice but to keep on teaching in a way that you don't feel is effective for your students or fulfilling to you. What can you say?

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JULY 11, 2018

This week’s theme focuses on augmentation and the potential benefits (and dangers) of the quantified student being generated by the larger datafication of society. It can help with accessibility issues for people to learn, for people to develop and build themselves up. And I can see applications, for example, a physics class.

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Creatrix Campus

JUNE 27, 2024

For the same problem, with the power of e-learning, students will solve using different ways. All the required data for a student to study will be available within their palm with the power of the cloud - and no more carrying heavy books. When you study you need to evaluate yourself. is another crucial challenge.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 28, 2023

Image: About a dozen students gathered at the Culver Family Welcome Center on the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh’s campus in February to participate in the first of a new discussion series designed to promote open and civil discourse on the First Amendment. ” He’s not the only higher ed leader in the U.S.

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Experiential Learning Depot

JANUARY 13, 2025

It’s about empowering students to tackle real-world questions that matter to them and producing work that has impact beyond the classroom. Action: Outlining what they’ll do, such as create a brochure, develop a tool, teach a class, etc. weave Black history into your curriculum all year long.

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Experiential Learning Depot

MARCH 9, 2025

So how do we get students to think this way? It helps students become problem-solvers, researchers, and doers rather than passive receivers of information. This process not only deepens the understanding of content but also helps students develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills through trial and error.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

AUGUST 26, 2020

We decided instead on a part-time 2-week cyclical structure, during which students would complete three tasks: Scholars were asked to choose a book to read for each fortnightly cycle, and were eclectic and wide ranging in their selections. Where next? In short, to chart a path between individual learning and a shared community spirit.

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Experiential Learning Depot

JULY 14, 2024

​It hasn't always been easy and I've made a lot of mistakes (I still do), but the hope for this post is to hand off some of my experiences to you so that launching student directed project based learning is smooth and exciting for everyone involved. Watch my free digital mini-course all about getting ready for student-directed PBL.

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Kay Peterson

MAY 13, 2022

Michellana has discovered that the critical element to successful business outcomes begins with leveraging the power of “teaming.” Michellana has found that while students intellectually understand what it means to be on a high performing team, they’ve not necessarily deconstructed the elements of effecting teaming.

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Experiential Learning Depot

JULY 14, 2024

Pick and choose what is realistic for you and your students and start implementing or gathering a few of these supplies at a time. If a specific material isn’t working to promote or nurture powerful student-led PBLs, get rid of it or adapt it in a way that works for your unique student population.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

APRIL 17, 2019

The course staff feel that a more private blog is a good way for students to express ideas and reflect on them (in a safe space), and really helps the course staff and the student to connect. Dr Simon Riley is using it in part of the Student-Led, Individually-Created Courses (SLICCs) project. Look out for it! Apr 17, 2019

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Experiential Learning Depot

APRIL 29, 2023

Spring is here, the weather is warming, and students are getting antsy. Design and Make a Product: The idea behind this community action project is that students design and make something that raises awareness and provides a tangible outcome. One of my students did her community action project on teen pregnancy, a topic of her choice.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

And I'm thrilled to introduce Dr. Heather Speed, who serves vice president of Student Services at Pueblo Community College. So that was a big group of students that we identified and were able to create a campaign for it and go after. What could we do, what kind of variables could we look at to appeal to those students?

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

MAY 14, 2024

EUSA Teaching Awards 2024 In this blog Callum Paterson, Academic Engagement & Policy Coordinator at the Students’ Association, turns the spotlight to the winners of the Students’ Association’s 2024 Teaching Awards for staff offering exceptional levels of support to students.

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Experiential Learning Depot

AUGUST 14, 2024

​I don't doubt that, but they are certainly not limited to "gifted and talented" students. The difference is in how each student develops the skills and knowledge. Learning experiences, or projects in this case, are designed by each individual student to accommodate their unique needs and qualities. And I did.

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Experiential Learning Depot

MAY 23, 2023

They not only get to build some pretty incredible skills, including the ability to develop and launch a business , but they get to make a little extra summer cash in the process! I have had students develop and run summer camps, computer maintenance businesses, take-and-bake pie shops, and photography companies, just to name a few.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

JANUARY 29, 2024

Unpacking History to Understand the Future of Student Affairs Assessment Sydney Kayne, SAAL Blog Writer and Assessment & Evaluation Analyst at University of Colorado Boulder For many student affairs divisions across the United States, co-curricular assessment is a practice that feels like it’s still finding its footing.

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Will Richardson

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

At some point in the last couple of months, someone recommended that I read Seth Kreisberg’s 1992 book Transforming Power: Domination, Empowerment, and Education. So, here’s a snip from the book that talks about the work of those educators under the threat of nuclear war. To whomever that person is, sincere thanks.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 2, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma A Gallup and Purdue poll of 30,000 college grads from 2014 found that students who had a rich, robust relationship with a faculty member were twice as likely as peer graduates to report high levels of well-being. In The Cost of Inclusion: How Student Conformity Leads to Inequality on College Campuses, Blake R.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Some courses in the School of Social and Political Sciences adopt this model, such as SPS Research in Practice, and Contemporary Issues in Sociology, and many others combine elements of it where students can pursue some of their own ideas in class. This is not an approach guaranteed to produce students willing to fly without a parachute.

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Experiential Learning Depot

JULY 31, 2023

. ​Students explore careers of interest, research the logistics that come with those careers, design and lead their own community action projects around issues relevant to a career of interest, develop 21st-century skills, and build a stunning and robust career portfolio to showcase these learning experiences. He dove right in.

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Experiential Learning Depot

APRIL 8, 2024

Sure, your students can do some worksheets on career exploration, read some articles, and do a little surface-level research. Imagine one of your students comes to you today and says “When I graduate I’m going to start my own video rental business!” 6 Career Exploration Activities for High School Students ​1.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 18, 2025

But as Robin Diangelo and zlem Sensoy remind us in their book Is Everyone Really Equal? Helping students develop critical thinking skills, media literacy, and historical context are central to my practice. Doing so would be a disservice to me, to the students, and to the integrity of education itself.

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