Project-Based Learning - Learn Why You Learn!!

Have you thought about why are we learning this? Have you ever thought about where would we be implementing this in real life?

Well, project-based learning allows us to implement our learnings and understand why we are learning a particular topic. Project-based learning (PBL) is a teaching style that encourages people mainly students to actively participate in real-world initiatives that are personally relevant to them.

Through participation in real-world projects and experiences, project-based learning (PBL) allows students to learn profoundly and acquire fundamental employability skills.

"It’s not just learning that’s important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matter" -Norton Juster

How can PBL be differentiated from a traditional project?

A traditional project is one that is done at the end of a lesson or a lecture. It is usually the built-in models or poster presentation which we do at the end of a particular topic.

Whereas in PBL, the project itself is used to teach academic lessons and success skills to the students. Students work together to answer a critical topic, such as "How can we make a difference in our community?" Students become immersed in the subject after investigating it for a few weeks or more, pursuing answers from multiple perspectives. Whatever they are learning is applied in meaningful ways to get answers. By doing this, they are able to understand and relate what they are doing to the real-time world. They develop skills that are useful for their college, career, and even life.

A project is a dessert that is served at the end of the lessons whereas Project Based Learning is the main course.

Project-Based Learning is something different from normal which makes us understand why we learn things and where to use them. It may be an answer to our unanswered questions!