Project Based Learning: A Bridge Just Far Enough (Feature ARTICLE‪)‬

Imagine a day in the distant future when a student comes home from school (or the community learning center), and the parent asks, "What did you do at school today?" And the child answers, "The teacher tried something new today. She called it a "lecture". It's something they used to do in school at the beginning of the century." As the world moves forward, so must education--and it is quite possible that eventually lecture and direct instruction will be long forgotten remnants of a prior age. But we're not there yet. Despite the arrival of the digital world, and the fact that nearly 11 percent of the 21st century is gone, educators are still not certain how to organize instruction for young people.