Twitter is becoming the repository of information that we in education thought we’d likely never see. A recent article from the University of Education in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, sums up a wealth of international research which shows why project-based learning is important.
The wealth of sources includes America’s innovative Commission of Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) and its enGauge 21st Century Skills framework. The article opens thus: “The old-school model of passively learning facts and reciting them out of context is no longer sufficient to prepare students to survive in today’s world.” It goes on to list the skills needed for the 21st century:
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