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[|Beginning the Journey: Five-Year-Olds Drive Their Own PBL Projects]
This video takes place at a kindergarten learning center where students are acquiring a taste for the process of lifelong learning. Children need to learn how to solve problems, and they need to be resourceful. This learning center teaches children to be lifelong learners and are keeping children excited about the learning process through project based learning.

The article gives an example of how students reacted to interactive whiteboards in the classroom. It brought the classroom to life and intrigued the students. Administrators found that teachers who were previously afraid of technology have "jumped in with both feet."

This video details how computer-simulation technology can be used in teaching students new experiences about how things work and how things behave without ever actually touching them. It is also referred to as "interactive pretending." There are so many things in the world today that are either too dangerous or too complex to experience directly, therefore, hands-on learning is not reliable. Computer-simulation technology presents a solution to this problem, thus being fundamental to education. As educators today, we need to think of education in a different way and engaging learning does just that. I thought the "Pulse" simulation was an ideal way to train medical personnel without putting a "real" patient's life at risk.

This video focuses on how students analyze scenes from classic films in order to develop critical thinking skills and to learn movie-making techniques. Teachers who have used this unique curriculum think of it as "training the eye and the heart." Since the love of the "silver screen" is pretty much a birthright in the United States, kids need tools to interpret the visual imagery they are immersed in every day.

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