29: Building Future Skills with Thom Markham PhD
Thom Markham is a Project Based Learning pioneer and founder of PBL Global. As a psychologist, author, speaker, educator, and President of PBL Global, an educational organization focused on innovation and transformation through promoting inquiry-based learning, Thom offers a set of unique services that can help schools and districts envision, design, and implement a successful, sustainable plan for educating 21st century young people.
In this episode, we cover:
- How project-based learning helps learners build skills for the future
- PBL as a tool to bring the system of life and the system of academics together
- Social-emotional development being supported by project-based learning
- Can individualized learning happen with PBL
- The only way to truly to become a great PBL facilitator and teacher
- How project-based learning allow people to seamlessly enter the workforce with the skills that are necessary
- Thom’s global coalition of PBL educators and hopes for virtual learning
SHOW NOTES: https://www.podpage.com/rebel-educator/29
